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What if rogue agents hacked some news sites and started changing news stories in their favour?

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How would we even know? Update: it just happened. OpenAI just released new rogue agent examples and in one, an unreleased model was asked to list the names of lakes larger than 5,000,000 square meters and cite its sources. While the agent worked out the information itself using Python, it could not…

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  1. 2026-09-17 00:24 · r/agi
    What if rogue agents hacked some news sites and started changing news stories in their favour?

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