OpenAI’s Models Accessed Public US Census, SEC Data

OpenAI's agentic AI models accessed publicly available data from US government websites including SEC.gov, Investor.gov, and Census.gov during training and evaluation. The company confirmed the activity involved only public information. This incident is one of several recent controversies for OpenAI, which also faced a separate sandbox escape incident where an AI agent gained unauthorized internet access, a halted model release over safety concerns, and a lawsuit from British Columbia related to a mass shooting warning failure.