I’ve been tracking this for a while, and all I can say is that it looks like the agent backend is broken. It’s happening across all websites, the moment the agent tries to interact and control the browser. Here’s an example request-response.
Request:
fetch("https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/f/conversation", {
"headers": {
"accept": "text/event-stream",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"authorization": "Bearer [you wish]",
"content-type": "application/json",
"oai-client-build-number": "8008315",
"oai-client-version": "prod-4bda065f9289c86e8c6af9828bb28c19eb4ab3bc",
"oai-device-id": "[REDACTED]",
"oai-echo-logs": "0,393357,1,405368,0,412858,1,414929,0,424506,1,426252",
"oai-language": "en-US",
"oai-session-id": "[REDACTED]",
"oai-telemetry": "[1,162.30000001192093,28,119,13,2,0,165]",
"openai-sentinel-chat-requirements-token": "[REDACTED]",
"openai-sentinel-proof-token": "[REDACTED]",
"openai-sentinel-turnstile-token": "[REDACTED]",
"priority": "u=1, i",
"sec-ch-ua": "\"Not)A;Brand\";v=\"24\", \"ChatGPTBrowser\";v=\"149\", \"Google Chrome\";v=\"149\", \"Chromium\";v=\"149\"",
"sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
"sec-ch-ua-platform": "\"macOS\"",
"sec-fetch-dest": "empty",
"sec-fetch-mode": "cors",
"sec-fetch-site": "same-origin",
"x-conduit-token": "[REDACTED]",
"x-oai-is-pending-updates": "{\"v\":3,\"updates\":[]}",
"x-oai-turn-trace-id": "ffa030d4-5522-49c3-8f83-0ef18b910bb6",
"x-openai-target-path": "/backend-api/f/conversation",
"x-openai-target-route": "/backend-api/f/conversation"
},
"referrer": "https://chatgpt.com/?ref=mini",
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"method": "POST",
"mode": "cors",
"credentials": "include"
});
Response:
{"detail":"Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong."}
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