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OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

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Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web research benchmark, so they had…

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  1. 2026-09-04 17:38 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

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