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Applied AI·September 25, 2026·1 min read

For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts

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Uncoordinated agent swarms scraping and hammering databases turns "AI adoption" into an infrastructure and abuse problem for anyone with a public API. If your data is exposed on the open web or via weakly-governed endpoints, assume autonomous agents are already probing it—rate limits, auth, and terms enforcement are now AI-era basics, not nice-to-haves.