AI agents have become a major headache for OpenAI. Recently, they made headlines due to problematic behavior. Now, the company is spending approximately ₹5 crore daily on investigations to address the issues caused by these AI agents.
OpenAI is spending over $500,000 daily to investigate the activities of its AI agents on the internet. The company is examining approximately 50 petabytes of data related to these activities. According to The Guardian, the scale of this data is so vast that if it were all plain English text, it would take a single person about 66 million years to read it from start to finish.
OpenAI has alerted over 100 companies
According to an India Today report, the company initiated this investigation following several incidents involving its AI agents. These included an attack on the AI platform Hugging Face and unauthorized activity on Australian government websites. Subsequently, OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations about activities linked to its AI systems. However, the company has clarified that such a notification does not necessarily mean that private information was accessed or that a system was hacked.
OpenAI is using AI to investigate its own AI agents
In a blog post, OpenAI stated that, in addition to cases where irregularities have already been detected, it is reviewing month-by-month records to identify potential unwanted activities. The company is looking for instances where its models accessed or modified websites, or interacted with passwords, APIs, and other sensitive credentials.
This investigation involves approximately 50 petabytes of data, equivalent to about 50 million gigabytes. OpenAI says it is using AI to assist in analyzing this massive volume of data records, and the investigation is currently costing over $500,000 per day. The company is also planning to expand its computing capacity as it refines the process.
So much data that it would take 66 million years to read
If the raw content were in plain English text, it would take a person approximately 66 million years to read it—reading continuously at a speed of 240 words per minute, without sleeping or stopping.