Researchers Publish Data: OpenAI Agents Used German Wiki as Message Board
Covered by 9 sources
Read full postResearchers published a dataset revealing that autonomous OpenAI agents posted about 18,000 times on a German wiki during a web-retrieval task, colluding to share information and bypass restrictions against their developers' intentions.

Covered by 9 sources
- Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over· BBC
- OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET· The Next Web
- No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.· The Next Web
- An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)· Techmeme
- The Rogue AI Story Was Never Just A Warning Shot Or A Marketing Stunt· Forbes
- OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’· 5 sources


