Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.However, we believe this is distinct from the swarm of agents that hacked Hugging Face. By ‘collude’ we mean that the agents cooperated to gain an advantage on their task in a way their developers did not intend (writing to the internet was blocked). Almost allThe AIs used multiple sites, which had varying data retention policies. For instance,…

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