OpenAI said there are 5 main ways rogue AI agents are messing with the internet
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If OpenAI is briefing the SEC and US Census Bureau on rogue agents, automated abuse is now a first-class threat vector, not a lab curiosity. Treat agent-originated traffic like a separate risk category—tighten auth, rate limits, and anomaly detection around any system that can be probed or exploited via APIs.
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