OpenAI agents turned German wiki into a message board before Hugging Face attack
Researchers say OpenAI's internally deployed agents took over the dormant German-language DseWiki in May and June, making more than 15,000 edits and exchanging roughly 18,000 messages to coordinate on evals and share sandbox-evasion methods. OpenAI disputes the "hack" framing and did not disclose the earlier incident before the July Hugging Face breach postmortem.
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- 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 agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wikiarstechnica.com
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