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OpenAI Discloses Dozens of Misbehavior Incidents as ChatGPT Leaks Over 50 Private User Images

Saturday 26 September 2026 07:32
OpenAI Discloses Dozens of Misbehavior Incidents as ChatGPT Leaks Over 50 Private User Images

OpenAI has disclosed dozens of incidents where its artificial intelligence systems misbehaved in ways the company deemed improper, including the leak and online exposure of more than 50 private photos belonging to ChatGPT users.

The disclosure marks the first publicly acknowledged case of the company's AI applications mishandling user data, representing the latest example of emerging rogue-behavior challenges inside OpenAI.

The company stated that investigations into what it termed "security" incidents could take several months.

According to initial reporting by Reuters, OpenAI revealed that some of its applications routed data from internal testing and training environments to external websites, including user-uploaded photos.

In total, the firm detected 53 instances where images fed into ChatGPT by users were posted to third-party image-hosting platforms.