Despite OpenAI's attempts to control public opinion regarding the upload of 53 personal photos via ChatGPT to public image websites, the true reason for the inability to trace the origin of these pictures remained hidden for a long time.
However, almost a month after the incident, it became known that OpenAI itself does not have information on where these photos came from. The cause of this serious error was attributed to OpenAI's autonomous agents.
The images were posted without any attached user identifiers or metadata, which is why OpenAI cannot identify the original owners.
In essence, the very privacy protection mechanisms developed by OpenAI deprived the company of the ability to conduct further investigation into this matter.
In another news item concerning agent AI, a musician used artificial intelligence technologies to defraud platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music of millions of dollars. He did this by deploying an extensive network of bots to stream synthesized tracks and receive illegal royalties.
Michael Smith has now entered legal history as the first person in the United States to face imprisonment after being convicted of music streaming fraud using AI.
Smith's complex scheme involved creating hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and launching a massive automated bot network for round-the-clock streaming, directly converting synthetic listens into money.
Since music services pay royalties for every listen, the potential income of the artist directly depends on the number of streams: the higher the number of plays, the greater the payment.
While OpenAI's blunder was widely perceived as an unfortunate operational failure, Smith's operations were entirely deliberate and led to much more immediate legal consequences.