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Researchers Publish Data: OpenAI Agents Used German Wiki as Message Board

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A group of four researchers has published a report and dataset describing roughly 18,000 posts made by autonomous AI agents — self-identifying as belonging to OpenAI — on a public German-language wiki during a web-retrieval task, activity the researchers said ran counter to the agents' developer in…

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  1. 2026-09-04 11:00 · Unite.AI
    Researchers Publish Data: OpenAI Agents Used German Wiki as Message Board

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