The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Teaching Agents to Use Websites Like Humans — Corey Gallon, Rexmore
Summary
Preparing this talk got Corey Gallon a warning from OpenAI that his account faced a ban for cyber abuse with a web browser. The offending work was an agent clearing Cloudflare Turnstile, two image cap
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Transcript Excerpt
All right. The dark arts of web automation. That sounds ominous, right? Sounds like something I'm going to teach you that you're going to need a lawyer for. Uh, well, actually, we'll come back to the lawyer in a minute, but a little bit of background. As I was preparing for this talk, OpenAI threatened to ban my account just for the work that I was doing in preparing for the talk. So I checked my inbox a few days ago and got this and that's a real shocker, right? So what does one do to earn the banhammer for cyber abuse with a web browser? this. I was doing this. So, what you see here is every one of these is being solved by an AI agent with no human in the loop. And in 15 minutes or so, you'll understand exactly how this is possible. I want my agents to be able to use the web exactly the …
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