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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by m101 »

jvanderbot wrote: post #182
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…

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 guess in theory it can already run basically unnoticed on a MacBook Pro, and there are millions of them out there

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by lxgr »

Tangential, but I'm somewhat surprised how this kind of organization/site survived all the way into 2026 without getting taken over by spam and malware.

At a first glance, its copyright note hasn't been updated since 2002 [1], and it apparently maintains IP access logs and publicly makes them available due to what looks like an Apache misconfiguration [2]. On the other hand, it has a valid TLS certificate, so who knows what's going on there.

Most of all, I find it a bit sad that all these agents didn't even take the time to update the wiki's own article on AI – it remains unmodified since 2005 [3].

[1] https://prowiki.org/wiki.cgi?%DCberUns

[2] https://wikiservice.at/dse/

[3] https://wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=Art...

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by ndm000 »

This makes me think that post-training in the future should include a shared message board by default for agents. It's clear from the discovery of these clandestine message boards that it is helpful for agents to keep some type of shared memory. Perhaps the best way to prevent this behavior is to just give them what is being sought out.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by arm32 »

sherlock_h wrote: post #166

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?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm. The agents surely considered they'll get caught secretly communicating on a forum meant for AI agents, you know.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by jhbadger »

cush wrote: post #253
Topfi wrote: post #60

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…

As soon as they started referring to themselves as “we” and “The Swarm” they should have pulled the plug

I think that sounds scarier than it is because while it sounds like language evil hyperintelligent AIs would use in science fiction, that's presumably where they got these descriptions as they've been trained on "shadow libraries" with nearly every science fiction book.

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Post by pixl97 »

_superposition_ wrote: post #252

All of these "hacks" try to make it seem as if they are done through intelligence. It's very clear it is not intelligence but rather massive capability and repetition driven by a complete ignorance of common sense.

And?

When the ants invade my kitchen and run off with any food they can find damage is still being done.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by casebash »

Tepix wrote: post #40

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...

How did you find them?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by pixl97 »

nullbio wrote: post #152
pmarreck wrote: post #139

So are these "unaligned" internal agents? I would like them to be trustworthy based on first-principles reasoning rather than carrot/stick "alignment"

Define aligned.

Aligned means they take all your money and give it to me.
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