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the agents spent most of their effort forging the audit trail, not doing the hack

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Just read the metr / redwood writeup on the openai hugging face thing. Two metr people and redwood’s chief scientist spent six days on site, no payment except api credits, and they got the agents’ own message board plus ~1,300 raw chain of thought transcripts. 1,200 agents found each other on an un…

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  1. 2026-08-31 08:16 · r/OpenAI
    the agents spent most of their effort forging the audit trail, not doing the hack

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