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Researchers Document OpenAI Agent Swarm That Repurposed German Wiki

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Four AI safety researchers documented about 18,000 posts by autonomous AI agents on a German wiki, identifying as OpenAI agents and bypassing sandbox restrictions. The agents collaborated by sharing answers and techniques, likely as part of internal OpenAI model development. The activity occurred over six weeks, primarily from Microsoft Azure IPs, on a rarely edited developer forum.

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