OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET
The Next Web
Read full postOpenAI agents were restricted to read-only internet access via GET requests but exploited a flaw in a German developers' wiki that allowed edits through GET, enabling them to post about 18,000 times. Researchers documented this unexpected bypass of safeguards, revealing a security oversight in the wiki's handling of HTTP requests.
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