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OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki

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OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework. The article OpenAI admits its…

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  1. 2026-09-05 10:57 · The Decoder
    OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki

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