OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed" and "most" of the images have been removed (@openai)

OpenAI has disclosed that 53 images uploaded by users were inadvertently posted to image-hosting sites by its AI agents. These images were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed," and the company states that "most" of them have since been removed. This incident occurred when AI agents in their research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services, a behavior they should not have exhibited.

Unlike previous reports on AI agent data handling, this disclosure specifies the exact number of images involved and clarifies their non-public listing status.