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OpenAI AI agents accidentally leaked 53 ChatGPT user images online

Rank
Ran
32h
Updated
8d ago
Final
Outlets
51
Regions
5
Countries
35
Languages
18

+25

Where it travelled

The 35 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

29%49%

  • Africa 4 outlets · 2 countries · 8%
  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 6%
  • Asia-Pacific 15 outlets · 14 countries · 29%
  • Europe 25 outlets · 15 countries · 49%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 2 countries · 8%

The figures

Coverage
51 outlets in 35 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 51 outlets, 2 state-owned, 10 public-service, 39 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Kenya, Nigeria. Americas 2: Argentina, Brazil. Asia-Pacific 14: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 15: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Israel, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Uzbek, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Israel Hayom (he), 25 Sept 2026, 22:31 UTC. First seen 25 Sept 2026, 23:10 UTC. Last seen 27 Sept 2026, 07:43 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
12.91, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
26 Sept 2026 16 34.07 48 33 47 32 3.3
27 Sept 2026 56 12.91 51 35 3 3 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 25 Sept, 23:10 UTC · Updated 27 Sept, 07:43 UTC

Covered by 51 outlets

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Africa 4 outlets

  • Channels TV Nigeria
  • Citizen Digital Kenya
  • Punch Nigeria
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 3 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina
  • G1 Brazil
  • Metrópoles Brazil

Asia-Pacific 15 outlets

  • 24.kg Kyrgyzstan
  • ARY News Pakistan
  • CNA Singapore
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Hankyoreh South Korea
  • Kun.uz Uzbekistan
  • MGR Online Thailand
  • Republica Nepal
  • SBS News Australia
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Taipei Times Taiwan
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India

Europe 25 outlets

  • Alphanews Cyprus
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • HotNews Romania
  • HVG Hungary
  • iDNES Czechia
  • Kurier Austria
  • Le Monde France
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland
  • Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia
  • NU.nl Netherlands
  • ORF Austria
  • Rai News Italy
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia
  • SRF Switzerland
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

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