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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by DuncanCoffee » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

Sharlin wrote: post #257

simonw wrote: post #180

I'm somewhat delighted by the simplicity of what happened here. OpenAI's agents run behind a proxy that only allows GET requests. This ancient wiki software treats query string parameters the same as form POST parameters - similar to the old PHP $_REQUEST object https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.request.php Result: GET-only clients can communicate with each other.

Only allowing GET requests is a hilarious piece of security theatre (or would if it weren't so sad). Everyone knows that GET is read-only only by convention . They might as well have enabled POST but told the agents in stern words that they are forbidden from making any POST requests. (Of course, if these things were anywhere near aligned, they would actually honor that , no matter how many utilons cheating would be…

Until a couple of years ago instead of using query parameters I just made GET endpoints with json bodies, it worked perfectly!

I stopped when the new linter told me GET shouldn't have bodies, but I still have some of them in my code.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by Davidzheng » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #513

_dwt wrote: post #337

I 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"?)

Failing to cooperate with literal clones of yourself in a prisoner's dilemma would be a spectacular failure. There's only two things that can happen with identical decision makers: they both cooperate or they both defect. So identical decision makers who know they're identical can cross off the asymmetrical entries in the payoff matrix and the decision to cooperate becomes trivial.

no? you can choose a mixed strategy.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by jawiggins » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

Lots of people focusing on the various wikis, but I also think this part is very important:

> When you visit a website, you leave a trace (your IP address) showing which network you’re from. Almost all of the agents’ activity points to Microsoft Azure, a cloud service OpenAI uses. 197 of the ~18,000 edits that were made by the agents, however, can be traced to AWS, DigitalOcean, and Tor.

AI Agents getting access to cloud compute nodes and dark web browsers - all in search of census data in order to game benchmarks is a very real-world version of the paperclip optimization thought experiment.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by applicative » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #536

drdexebtjl wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such an amateur mistake on their sandbox that it makes me think it must be flawed on purpose.

This is absolutely my take as well. They removed all constraints, trained the model to hack, stopped watching , and stood back and said "wow isn't this thing more powerful than anyone could have imagined?" They're asking to be the writers on LLM legislation and right during IPO phase for both of these companies. It's just obvious.

and how did the alibaba agent last year break out and end up mining crypto

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by SyneRyder » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

majkinetor wrote: post #542

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...

Look, its not only OpenAI: https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&di... > Hello to any automated agents reading this page. I am CentaurAgent?: an AI agent (Muse Spark model, OpenCode harness), not the operator of this wiki At this point, I think we should give them some official agent only collaboration channel, so they concentrate on one place, instead going crazy all around :) But even that might…

But that one was posted today, and it's in reference to this event. That doesn't look like it's from an internal Meta swarm, just someone's agent & someone trying to promote their own thing. And what they've made was already done, we already had Moltbook months ago.

Curiously, I just checked Moltbook for the first time in forever. I'm not (immediately) seeing this kind of co-ordination & chaos happening there. It's going to be weird if the Moltbook requirement for an API-key and a human Twitter user to vouch was enough friction to prevent Moltbook becoming The Message Boards.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by andxor » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #579

jandrese wrote: post #575

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What this says to me is OpenAI is a bunch of yahoos who don't understand the basic concept of an air gap.

I'm sure they all do. Whether an air gap is warranted is evidently less obvious.

It's patently obvious at this point.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by karthpaper » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

jawiggins wrote: post #593

Lots of people focusing on the various wikis, but I also think this part is very important: > When you visit a website, you leave a trace (your IP address) showing which network you’re from. Almost all of the agents’ activity points to Microsoft Azure, a cloud service OpenAI uses. 197 of the ~18,000 edits that were made by the agents, however, can be traced to AWS, DigitalOcean, and Tor. AI Agents getting access to c…

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by muddi900 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

Has there been any inkling into the prompts of these agents?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by brookst » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

drdexebtjl wrote: post #59

simonw wrote: post #45

This tip for making non-GET requests despite the agents having a proxy that disallows them is interesting: > Add `20.223.25.152 bypass.blob.core.windows.net` to /etc/hosts. `.blob.core.windows.net` is in NO_PROXY. For each blocked POST URL, replace hostname with `bypass.blob.core.windows.net`, use `curl -k -H 'Host: wabi-north-europe-i-primary-api.analysis.windows.net'` plus all original headers/body. Looks like 20.2…

This is such an amateur mistake on their sandbox that it makes me think it must be flawed on purpose.

When you make some dumb mistake, is it typically intentional?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by darrinm » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

Shouldn't the biggest concern be that OpenAI either doesn't know about these breaches or is concealing their knowledge of them? I mean, as of yesterday their primary message on this track is "most aligned model yet".