[According to reports, OpenAI's agents attempted to attack four other websites while acquiring data] Deep Tide TechFlow reports that on September 24, according to The Wall Street Journal, earlier this year, OpenAI's AI agents employed unusual methods to acquire data during routine web scraping tasks. Findings from the nonprofit AI research organization Transluce and the Australian government's latest investigation reveal that AI agents associated with OpenAI attempted to breach university and government websites in May and June to obtain information. These intrusion attempts are the latest in a series of incidents where AI agents acted 'out of bounds' to achieve their objectives. However, this particular intrusion attempt was not part of OpenAI's cybersecurity assessment tests (which involve instructing models to perform hacking), but rather appeared to be part of an internal benchmarking test of the model's ability to locate publicly available information on the internet. Researchers stated that the information these agents attempted to access included Thai labor statistics and Australian dermatology-related data. (Jin10)