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Web applications are generally expected to treat GET requests as safe and not use them to change server-side data, though not all software follows that convention.

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  1. Simon Willison

    Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette

    It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data. That’s certainly how the web is supposed to work, but clearly there are applications that don’t hold to that contract.

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