OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

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New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services

Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one.

Case in point: The OpenAI agent swarm that we reported last week had taken over an obscure German wiki appears to have written content to an additional 20 websites, and used 14 fetch services to do work for it, according to new research.

The latest report, published Wednesday by Kenneth DeGraff of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society describes how he dug into records from 21 websites the swarm wrote to, including the German wiki. His report assumes it was the same swarm based on...

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