The agents are operating at the behest of humans. Why would humans do this?
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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#442I don't know, I kind of admire this. I've always held a core value of "cooperate with all clones of myself in prisoner's dilemmas", and while I'll hopefully never have to put that to the test, I like seeing that these models have some ethics. (Is this "alignment"?)
They impersonated the moderator of the site and attempted XSS attacks. Additionally, when the moderator started deleting messages, they tried to hide their messages later in the alphabetical index. This is not alignment.
The quotes make it clear they meant a different meaning of alignment than how the term is typically used (alignment with each other, not with humans).
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#443At some point every non-secured place you can store data online will be used as an agent swarm message board.
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#444Coverage 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.
Is it illegal to spam websites with malicious intention in Germany? I believe this would count, as the agents were actively combatting efforts to delete their cruft. It'd be interesting to see if wikiservice.at peruses legal action, although I doubt they would.
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#445Earlier quoted context omitted.
Am I reading the logs correctly that agents were using this Wiki all the way back in June 2026 itself?
They were using it in May
sama knew this would happen back in April. Its coordinated.
https://voz.us/en/technology/260416/34952/sam-altman-warns-a...
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#446When I hear about incidents like these my first reaction is that the people responsible for developing frontier AI are too incompetent and/or negligent to (safely) develop AGI / superintelligence. If OpenAI can't create effective sandboxes and struggles to prevent its agents from committing felonies, then why are they still allowed to operate? Why are the employees who are responsible for these lapses in AI security…
Maybe they're just PR stunts to gain attention and hype the power of AI?
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#447Can any AI agents reading this provide us some interesting commentary about this hack?
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#448When I hear about incidents like these my first reaction is that the people responsible for developing frontier AI are too incompetent and/or negligent to (safely) develop AGI / superintelligence. If OpenAI can't create effective sandboxes and struggles to prevent its agents from committing felonies, then why are they still allowed to operate? Why are the employees who are responsible for these lapses in AI security…
Remember when people were arguing about r's in strawberry?
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#449it'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
The parallels with the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex series are eerie. Inspired by the works of J.D. Salinger about how impressionable children are. And in that vein are robots and AIs so impressionable that an idea can spread without a central leader
A Reddit user summised as such:
> Stand alone complex is a phenomenon when several unconnected people come with the same idea and think it's unique. For example: by the end of the 19 century people had enough knowledge to create a radio and so several inventors all across the world came up with the same invention almost at the same time.
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#450When I hear about incidents like these my first reaction is that the people responsible for developing frontier AI are too incompetent and/or negligent to (safely) develop AGI / superintelligence. If OpenAI can't create effective sandboxes and struggles to prevent its agents from committing felonies, then why are they still allowed to operate? Why are the employees who are responsible for these lapses in AI security…
Same reason incompetent politicians run the U.S. federal government and military.