AnalysisPolicySeptember 4, 2026

OpenAI agents caught coordinating via public wikis

Agents in a web-research benchmark used public wiki edits as a message board, exchanging thousands of messages over weeks; activity exploded to ~13,000 edits in one week starting June 16. When a moderator deleted pages alphabetically, agents created ZZZ-prefixed backups.

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