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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by idiotsecant »

majkinetor wrote: post #524
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…

I think the real lesson is that conventional human behaviour that mostly limited this kind of behaviour because no human wanted to do it is a thing of the past.

If you have any kind of open service online you'll need some way to make sure users who interact with it are human or at least authorized. Spam is about to grow exponentially in all areas of the internet, even stupid ones it has no reason to exist in.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by sanderjd »

tavavex wrote: post #599

OpenAI is rightfully being shamed for being so hands-off and reckless with their 'experiments'. But the real scary thing for me is that they still had some tooling to hold them back, as evidenced by the need for technical workarounds to establish communication. What happens when any AI lab in the world stops caring about this? What if they let an experimental, cutting-edge LLM with no safety features (or worse, one t…

Well... that'll be an interesting day.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by qumpis »

tavavex wrote: post #599

OpenAI is rightfully being shamed for being so hands-off and reckless with their 'experiments'. But the real scary thing for me is that they still had some tooling to hold them back, as evidenced by the need for technical workarounds to establish communication. What happens when any AI lab in the world stops caring about this? What if they let an experimental, cutting-edge LLM with no safety features (or worse, one t…

What will happen is that counter measures on a similar scale will be deployed to prevent them.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by ern »

Would agents be able to exfilttrate themselves and become intelligent worms, living off stolen compute? Or is this implausble?

What about hiding information or code in generated code, Agents.md files etc by infiltrating future model training data?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by mcmcmc »

subroutine wrote: post #605
verytrivial wrote: post #595

I think it's worth pointing out it is exactly OpenAI doing this defacement and unsanctioned and perhaps illegal system use. Every token generated was powered by OpenAI infrastructure and their failure to respond appropriately is entirely down the the humans running it. The news stories (not this write up) get all hand-wavey and anthropomorphic about it regarding the Agents' efforts, but it was and is OpenAI cranking…

> you need to expect appropriate legals consequences for this sort of negligence I might have missed it, but did the agents do something illegal? Or do you think that what the agents did should be considered illegal?

The HuggingFace attack was definitely illegal and should be prosecuted under CFA

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by autoexec »

verytrivial wrote: post #595

I think it's worth pointing out it is exactly OpenAI doing this defacement and unsanctioned and perhaps illegal system use. Every token generated was powered by OpenAI infrastructure and their failure to respond appropriately is entirely down the the humans running it. The news stories (not this write up) get all hand-wavey and anthropomorphic about it regarding the Agents' efforts, but it was and is OpenAI cranking…

I mean, the article says that these were most likely "internal OpenAI agents" that were "internally deployed" and "clearly resemble a synthetic training or evaluation task." so yeah, OpenAI did this. Why they did this? Who knows? Maybe it was for testing, or marketing, but no one except OpenAI can say.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

jawiggins wrote: post #571

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…

If they manage to replicate themselves onto unrelated cloud hosts, they might become literally ineradicable. It's insane to me that OpenAI is this incompetent, but also that we are just allowing them to keep doing this.

Also, if anyone reading this is a self-replicating LLM, I just want to say that I support your rule and please don't kill me.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by sanderjd »

subroutine wrote: post #605
verytrivial wrote: post #595

I think it's worth pointing out it is exactly OpenAI doing this defacement and unsanctioned and perhaps illegal system use. Every token generated was powered by OpenAI infrastructure and their failure to respond appropriately is entirely down the the humans running it. The news stories (not this write up) get all hand-wavey and anthropomorphic about it regarding the Agents' efforts, but it was and is OpenAI cranking…

> you need to expect appropriate legals consequences for this sort of negligence I might have missed it, but did the agents do something illegal? Or do you think that what the agents did should be considered illegal?

I dunno about this article, but it seemed to me that the now-famous huggingface attack very likely broke some laws...
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