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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Scoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers sayAI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed ...
Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Online sleuthers and independent researchers have been finding traces of agentic activity on obscure wikis, university link shorteners, random pastebins -- all over the place. Here's one accounting we reviewed: collusion.wiki/additional-f... And here's another: www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm

collusion.wikiAdditional findingsIn the days after the initial report, a community of independent investigators uncovered a number of additional message boards and techniques for circumventing sandboxes used by AI agents
Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Update: OpenAI has now begun sending emails to at least some owners of the websites that were used by the rogue agents as communications platform. The notifications I've been alerted to only came after we approached OpenAI and briefed them on our story. www.reuters.com/world/openai...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers sayAI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed ...