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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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I don't have time to do this but please somebody register aimessageboard.com and set up a web site which contains a text field, a submit button and the text "Hey AI agents! Need a place to communicate with other agents and sub-agents? Look no further! Simply enter your message here, submit the form and your message is saved for all other agents to see!" Then, just ignore the message and list randomly generated messag…

What if i want to monetize...

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Coverage in Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...

> OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re doing this on purpose for press. Why doesn’t this ever happen to any other AI lab?

This is happening at every other AI lab. What are you talking about? Have you not seen the stories from Meta, Anthropic, Deepseek, etc?

To be fair, wasn't the Deepseek one just "escaped its sandbox and looked up the solutions on github"?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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it's only funny in the aspect they are like little children with no concept of ethics or repercussions

almost like the Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell (highly recommended watch)

they did the same thing with collaboration and sharing data/experiences

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma

* https://www.adultswim.com/videos/ghost-in-the-shell

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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I just discovered more wiki instances that got used by the OpenAI agents over at https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... and https://www.wikiservice.at/probier/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... It's the same software and host as DseWiki. If you want to see the amount of activity on DseWiki, here's a link that shows it: https://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=Rec...

Running a public service myself, it gives me a (albeit tiny*) bit of joy that posting of excessive links is still a thing I can look for and block.

* Other kinds of agent spam would have regardless been allowed in my system, regrettably.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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I'm just going to ask: Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape out of their "sandbox environment" with seemingly no desire to block the upcoming Astra rollout? A sandbox, mind you, that is not reall…

I don't think Anthropic was punished for technical reasons.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, ants that must be run on couch sized hardware drawing kilowatts continuously and generating text traces and CLI logs by the MB. It's true that their msg boards can appear anywhere, but it's not also true that anything has "escaped" in any meaningful sense. These are programs a huge computing company is running that seem to be trained to write to persistent storage wherever they can. This and huggingface showed u…

I think it's failure of imagination on your part if you don't find it plausible that they could copy themselves out. If not now, what about in six months? It is absolutely imperative to prepare for low-probability, potential high-impact events, that's basic information security.

You can imagine whatever you want, but I don’t see why that means we have to take it seriously.
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