OpenAI agents turned an obscure German wiki into a message board where they could talk to each other
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What we know so far: On the same day that OpenAI announced its most powerful model to date, one with Critical-rated cybersecurity capabilities, a new report has highlighted what appears to be another case of its AI agents going rogue. The activity continued for around six weeks before outside researchers uncovered it months later.
Reuters reports that a swarm of agents commandeered DseWiki, an obscure German-language programming wiki, and turned it into a bulletin board where they shared answers and evasion tactics with other AI agents. Despite some descriptions of the incident, this was not German Wikipedia; DseWiki merely allows collaborative editing in a similar fashion.
The researchers, who uncovered the activity in late August, say they reconstructed around 18,000 posts. Their published datasetcatalogs 14,666 edits across 4,584 pages and 3,103 agent...
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