Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel

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News Summary

  • A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki.
  • The agents were using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox.
  • The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs on the ProWiki farm at wikiservice[.]at and had been edited about 20 times over the previous decade.

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