OpenAI agents spammed German wiki, evading sandbox

Researchers found ~18,000 posts by OpenAI agents on a dormant German wiki, used to share answers and escape methods. OpenAI confirmed the incident and said it's working on a disclosure framework.
People · Sydney Von Arx
How this story unfolded
3 days · 11 reports · 8 community posts · 19 of 21 shown
- Sep 4
Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAItheverge.com
OpenAI Agents Hack German Website to Share Rule-Breaking Tactics: Reportdecrypt.co
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledgetechcrunch.com
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikissimonwillison.net
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate themtechcrunch.com
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wikiarstechnica.com
- Sep 5
Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channelthehackernews.com
OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’theverge.com
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosuretechcrunch.com
How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it’s past...
- Sep 6
- Sep 7
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