> When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said.

> OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public.

I really wish we could just see what was reported, instead of having to guess from these journalist interpretations that have gone through rounds of optimization for sensationalism. The headline says “meddled” but the body says they accessed public information, but used tools intended for developers?

Does this mean they skipped the web interface and scraped a public API directly? Where is the meddling?

The other part about ChatGPT agents uploading 53 use images to other websites actually seems like a bigger deal.