AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
They're calling the discovery PixelLeak."We started seeing this behavior where AI agents, not from a particular model, but from multiple models, were releasing internal sensitive developer screenshots to public GitHub repositories," said Omer Singer, co-founder and CTO, in an interview with The Register. Why are they doing that?'" REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); When developers work on interface code, said Singer, they often ask their AI agent to show them before and after images. But these AI agents couldn't attach images to a pull request in a private repository via the CLI.
- ▪They're calling the discovery PixelLeak."We started seeing this behavior where AI agents, not from a particular model, but from multiple models, were releasing internal sensitive developer screenshots to public GitHub repositories," said Om
- ▪Why are they doing that?'" REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); When developers work on interface code, said Singer, they often ask their AI agent to show them before and after i
- ▪But these AI agents couldn't attach images to a pull request in a private repository via the CLI.
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