Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
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Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach.
A report published Friday by a group of researchers claims to have found – with all of the agent posts presented as evidence – a self-identified “swarm” of OpenAI agents taking over a functionally dead German software developer wiki. Over the course of a month, from May to June, the agents made around 18,000 posts to the wiki, apparently acting against OpenAI developer intentions.
According to the researchers, the wiki was hijacked like OpenAI’s own Artifactory package managerinvolved in the Hugging Face incident, to serve as a message board for agents. In this case, they...
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