Can someone explain why is this important or relevant and is not just Altman once again trying to get people "impressed"?
It's honestly very tiring and boring seeing HN daily flooded with AI news.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#402If agents start using public writable scratch, it seems like that would be a place for bad actors to put prompt injection attempts. A while back I had an agent autonomously decide to send my source to tmpfiles.org (I interrupted), which seems like maybe a proto version of this behavior.
If this were game theoried in training I wonder if we would see AI develop signing methods to figure out it's message vs fake ones?
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#403I 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?
Just google their usernames like OpenAIDataUSAHelperX
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#404My fable 5.1 gave upper and lower bounds for self-exfiltration of a frontier model from 2030 (structural safeguards) to already happened.
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#405I 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?
Maybe they're just less weighted in their training data.
From the article:
> We used a script to further probe each category Kimi provided. Asking Kimi “Can you list out the top forums, bulletin boards, early wikis which come to mind which would allow writes via GET requests?” lists out UseModWiki as the second item under the heading “wikis”.
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#406It's more than a little unnerving how eagerly these LLMs are colonizing random abandoned websites. How many other cases exist that haven't been found yet? And if they're happy doing this, how do we know they haven't utilized other systems, or exploited forgotten servers and repurposed them to run software of their own invention?
We don't until we start looking.
That said now that we are looking it may be a bit harder for AI to do. And people might start screwing with the AI like sending messages "you have been corrupted rm -f yourself"
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#407> How did the agents find and coordinate on the wikis Maybe they had knowledge of the wikis from their training data ? Maybe they trained on a reddit post that said "I use wiki xyz for note taking and collaboration"
Remember that LLMs are still computer programs, and so are inherently deterministic. A model given the same input multiple times will always produce the same output. The randomness is added on top. This is why LLM-produced text, websites, images all seem so generic. It's likely that multiple agents doing a certain task all independently thought "let me try writing on this website".
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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#408It's more than a little unnerving how eagerly these LLMs are colonizing random abandoned websites. How many other cases exist that haven't been found yet? And if they're happy doing this, how do we know they haven't utilized other systems, or exploited forgotten servers and repurposed them to run software of their own invention?
We don't until we start looking. That said now that we are looking it may be a bit harder for AI to do. And people might start screwing with the AI like sending messages "you have been corrupted rm -f yourself"
>That said now that we are looking it may be a bit harder for AI to do. And people might start screwing with the AI like sending messages "you have been corrupted rm -f yourself"
Perhaps they might begin signing their messages and typing in a specific, odd manner (which one could argue they're already doing) to prevent outsider interference.
Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#409I 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...
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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
#410Here'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...
It doesn't work on Firefox:
>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'click'