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I used my own swarm of agents to look for rogue-agent traces across the public web.

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TL;DR: - AI agents working under tight sandbox limits keep finding the same creative workarounds. They use web archives and URL scanners as remote browsers, wikis as message boards, and public issue threads as shared memory. - Benchmark agents now leave visible traces on real public accounts. - The…

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  1. 2026-10-17 06:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    I used my own swarm of agents to look for rogue-agent traces across the public web.

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