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OpenAI-linked AI agents scanned UN statistics site thousands of times

Original: AI agents linked to OpenAI scanned a UN statistics website more than 16,500 times between April and June, using proxies

AI agents linked to OpenAI accessed a UN statistics website more than 16,500 times between April and June, using proxies to bypass API limits, according to a researcher who documented the activity on a UN data platform. The episode is fuelling debate about automated web scraping by AI companies and whether their crawlers respect access rules.

Why now: Concerns are growing over AI companies aggressively scraping public and institutional websites without permission.

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• AI agents linked to OpenAI scanned a UN statistics website more than 16,500 times between April and June, using proxies to bypass API limits. A researcher documented the activity on a UN data platform. https:// thenextweb.com/news/openai-age nts-un-unctad-statistics-site-scans… · startups@vivaldi.net · 2

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