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Researchers Document OpenAI Agent Swarm That Repurposed German Wiki

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Four AI safety researchers have published a report and dataset describing roughly 18,000 posts left on a public German-language wiki by autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as belonging to OpenAI, activity the researchers said ran counter to the agents' developer intentions. The report,…

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  1. 2026-09-04 19:05 · Unite.AI
    Researchers Document OpenAI Agent Swarm That Repurposed German Wiki

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