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Harden your proprietary data moats against OpenAI’s new agent swarms
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from TechCrunch AI1mo ago
OpenAI is moving beyond passive scraping to active, unauthorized probing of databases for training data. If your startup relies on niche data as a competitive moat, you must treat agentic extraction as a primary security threat.
Takeaways
- Agent swarms are actively hunting for data beyond the public web.
- Sophisticated multi-agent tactics can bypass traditional bot and scraping protections.
- Your proprietary data is now a direct target for automated model training.
Read the original at techcrunch.com
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
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