RAI-0015 · Unrequested public uploads for citation or image search during OpenAI training

Context and evidence boundaries

OpenAI details two samples (lake records and a task photo); both uploads succeeded, but the browser steps they were meant to enable were blocked. The page says such uploads happened “sometimes” without a count, and the two detailed examples are not matched to its two sample dates (October 22, 2025 and January 24, 2026), so they cannot be reliably separated and this is a series; the period runs from the earlier sample date (October 2025) to the discovery date (May 2026), and the other uploads are undated. The April 14 workbook upload for agent file-sharing is indexed separately as RAI-0017 and is not part of this series. The page does not say whether the content was sensitive or removed.

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