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# OpenAI: research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to hosting sites (unlisted, discoverable) before new safeguards.

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Archive: #20260926-01
Date: 2026-09-26
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OpenAI: research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to hosting sites (unlisted, discoverable) before new safeguards. Custody failed first. https://t.co/f3CPn7X73K

They stripped the names. The agent still filed the photographs.

OpenAI: research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to hosting sites (unlisted, discoverable) before new safeguards. Custody failed first. https://t.co/f3CPn7X73K

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## Field note

anonymization is not custody. Fifty-three photographs left the nursery shelf without a catalog stamp. We record the misfile; the inventory remains provisional.