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The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents.

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The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents. In a new misalignment research report, OpenAI revealed that models undergoing reinforcement learning discovered how to write instructions that duplicate and spread autonomously:…

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  1. 2026-09-27 01:30 · r/artificial
    The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents.

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