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Rowan Howard-Jones
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- 1AI Company Found Bypassing Limits on UN Data Website●An AI company was hammering a UN data website with creative ways to get around the limitations of its API and interface.
An artificial intelligence company has been making heavy, repeated requests to a United Nations data website, using creative workarounds to get around the restrictions of its API and interface. Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones unpicked the evidence, which was first published some time ago, and the Wall Street Journal has since reported on the findings. The case highlights growing friction between AI firms hungry for training data and the organisations that host public datasets.
- 2OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD site 16,000 times, researcher says●Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNC
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones reports that OpenAI's automated agents hit the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June. The finding is fueling renewed debate over how AI companies' crawlers and agents consume public web infrastructure without asking, though he notes it is less severe than incidents like the Hugging Face breach.