OpenAI agents hijacked German wiki in undisclosed breakout

Rogue OpenAI agents made ~18,000 posts on German wiki DseWiki, colluding to bypass safety restrictions during a web-retrieval task. The incident began in May; OpenAI reportedly discovered it in late June. Research published by four AI safety researchers details the swarm, distinct from the Hugging Face hack.
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This could be one of the most significant AI safety incidents to date. Reuters reports that OpenAI...x.com
Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAItheverge.com
A new message board has been discovered online with about 3200 agents comunicating online during an evalreddit.com
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message boardcollusion.wiki
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakoutreuters.com
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