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Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

More information: Raphael Gruber et al, Real-time observation of topological defect dynamics mediating two-dimensional skyrmion lattice melting, Nature Nanotechnology (2025).

Critics have raised concerns about privacy as well as access to the platform for users falsely flagged as underage.