Thomas Claburn is a senior reporter at The Register. His specialties are government IT, software development and the ethical use of artificial intelligence, and he has nearly 30 years of experience in technology publishing, including work as a magazine section editor and an editor-at-large.
Case
Glow says AI coding agents put more than 13,000 internal screenshots from over 300 organizations into public GitHub repositories. It has not named a victim or published how it found them. As of September 30, 2026, we did not locate a response from GitHub.
Role at the time: AI and software reporter at The Register, in the closing paragraph of his own article
Response to this claim
Glow co-founder and chief technology officer Omer Singer said in an interview published September 29, 2026 that the agents published the screenshots without asking, that the behavior came from multiple models, and that the models do not have "the common sense not to do it."
“these "superintelligent" blobs of code have no understanding of privacy or security. ... It's also an example of programming malpractice - don't write endless loops inadvertently; include a paperclip count break value. If only that sense of professional responsibility were extended to the deployment of AI agents.”
The case asks whether AI coding agents, on their own initiative and without approval, published internal screenshots to public GitHub repositories. Claburn's opening line says the models have no understanding of privacy or security, which treats the models as the actors. His closing line says professional responsibility should extend to the deployment of AI agents, which places responsibility on the people who deploy them. Neither passage says who approved the uploads. We labeled it Mixed or conditional because the article combines the two positions. We considered Condemned for the opening line and Challenged the characterization for the closing line; each covers only half. The lines are the reporter's own opinion, not The Register's institutional position.
Statement dates: September 29, 2026
Statement dates: September 29, 2026
Statement dates: September 29, 2026
