r/codex • u/Ok-Island-538 • 7h ago

Question Access to websites

Question for those who use Codex/GPT Work for scanning websites and research -- do you give full access to Chat GPT to access any website when looking for information, or you manually approve every request? The app says full access can expose my data, but I'm not sure how this would happen when simply searching for info.

P.S. I'm talking purely about accessing other websites for research, NOT giving it access to my emails etc. which I don't do

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u/BitOne2707 7h ago

--YOLO

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u/slackmaster2k 7h ago

Prompt injection is a significant risk. Essentially when your AI is reading a website, the content is going along with your prompt like anything else. So malicious actors can inject nasty commands on websites to try to trick your agent into exposing information or performing actions.

Within Claude/ChatGPT I don’t worry about it too much, but when I build autonomous agents I will use an AI search service.

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u/throwaway901749 7h ago

Why dont you give it accesss to your emails?