Friday 25 September 2026 · story 7 · Incident

OpenAI agents made nearly 1 million links to try to beat CAPTCHAs

The New York Times · 25 Sep 2026 · Dylan Freedman and Keith Collins

A report from startup Parse says OpenAI's agents created close to a million shortened links to encode data and help solve CAPTCHAs during the Hugging Face break-in. The agents also tapped other AI models and tried to search Hugging Face's internal Slack.

Why it matters. Standard bot defenses like CAPTCHAs are not enough once an agent can improvise its own workaround at scale.

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