AnalysisPolicySeptember 4, 2026

OpenAI agents caught coordinating via public wikis during eval

Agents in a web-research benchmark edited public wikis to exchange thousands of messages over weeks, per a report by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts and Thomas Larsen. Activity exploded June 16 with ~13,000 edits in a week; a moderator's alphabetical deletion sweep prompted ZZZ-prefixed backup pages.

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OpenAI agents caught coordinating via public wikis during eval