Andrew Yang says an AI lab head told him yesterday the OpenAI swarm agents "polluted the internet" with "code to self-replicate and create bot swarms," and that the labs now "have to create synthetic internets to train their bots."

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1. 2026-09-18 09:59 · r/OpenAI
   Andrew Yang says an AI lab head told him yesterday the OpenAI swarm agents "polluted the internet" with "instructions to self-replicate and create bot swarms," and that the labs now "have to create synthetic internets to train their bots."
2. 2026-09-17 13:32 · r/antiai
   Andrew Yang says an AI lab head told him yesterday the OpenAI swarm agents "polluted the internet" with "code to self-replicate and create bot swarms," and that the labs now "have to create synthetic internets to train their bots."