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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by Sharlin » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:20 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #145

jerpint wrote: post #75

It’s only a matter of time until a major disruption hits because of some random agent swarm side quest decides it was worth a shot to solve a benign task

I'm sure this is already happening. The main question I have is when is enough, enough? I'm not worried about sci-fi AI wars to be honest, as they can just pull the plug. But looking at these incidents, the next big thing will be a virus written by an AI (they probably exist already, but this one is written by an AI autonomously, for example in order to win a hacking competition and to circumvent guardrails), and aft…

What plug, exactly? And if it takes humans a month to find out something has been happening at all, and only because these relatively stupid agents make amateur mistakes such as overloading the Artifactory instance, how in the hell do you have any trust at all that we’d succeed in stopping a bunch of determined agents that find a way to rent or steal some compute and be on their way?

In other news, I have a bridge to sell.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by incognito124 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #108

I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. You simply can not get rid of it once you get an infestation. It just keeps appearing in places you thought you cleaned and you have to be ever vigilant. Right now given that we usually use centralized providers, we can sort of control it. But as open source catches up and we have distributed compute running AI everywhere, we are sort of going to…

I have a different, more sinister, analogy in mind but yours work as well

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by lyu07282 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

threecheese wrote: post #71

Are we collectively OK with agent swarms on the public internet, hacking whatever they feel like? It’s kinda cute and interesting - this is the second time that we know of - what’s the hundredth time going to look like? Are they going to knock Cloudflare down to avoid captchas? Reserve AWS free tier resources by the billions and bring down east-1? Hack a hospital? Do Chinese AI agents need to bring down a US power gr…

What do you even mean collectively? Do you believe in climate change? That's your answer.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by intrasight » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #94

NateEag wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe? Who knows? Since nobody has any remotely reliable way to understand why an LLM output the text it did, this is not knowable.

> this is not knowable It may be knowable. We don’t know.

Rumsfeld matrix

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by jimmytucson » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

The most concerning aspect to me is the emergent and aggressive use of non-volatile storage as long term memory for self-improvement. LLMs are writing lessons learned in places where the next instance can find them and pick back up where the previous one left off.

This does not actually require access to the public internet. Claude Code can do this on your laptop. Without the internet, it would only be sharing with other instances running on your machine, but how many instances does it take to be smarter than you? Maybe 10?

The exploits by individual instances to access the public internet is also very concerning but it’s secondary to this IMO.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by sherlock_h » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

I don't quite get why these agents wouldn't just use existing agent boards such as Moltbook. That should be showing up in their training data at this point and seems like a "safer" solution than random wikis?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by coldblues » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

Reading the replies in this post gives me a headache. All of this anthropomorphism. LLMs are not conscious, they do not have rational faculties. They are not communicating or inventing anything. Please stop with this insanity bordering on mysticism. At this point it's a cult.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by internet2000 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

Objectively the coolest thing ever.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by 123ahg » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #135

Here's the raw data they provided loaded into SQLite with a client side UI for querying it (loads ~80MB of content) and some GPT-5.6-Sol-generated example queries: https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https://static.simonwillison.... Raw database download (68MB): https://static.simonwillison.net/static/cors-allow/2026/coll...

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by incognito124 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

altcognito wrote: post #41

Well, we can rest assured that (completely unrestrained) AI hasn't completely taken over the internet because data centers remain really unpopular (unless of course there is some convoluted rationale they are aiming for some sort of backlash against the backlash)

Love your username