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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by hoppp »

verytrivial wrote: post #581

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 think it is them running agents for marketing purposes.

Who else would be burning tokens on this?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by chinathrow »

HAL3000 wrote: post #733

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

The admin should bill OpenAI for those hours in hard currency.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by stef25 »

zzzeek wrote: post #577
adriand wrote: post #496

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems apparent that OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet. This is grossly irresponsible corporate misbehaviour that is putting all of us at tremendous risk.

oh im sure within a few months the biggest cyberattack risk on the planet is going to be somewhere like North Korea

In, or by ?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by FergusArgyll »

simonw wrote: post #173

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.

When I studied cybersecurity I always had this nagging feeling "But I can never get past something real" Turns out I can bypass the defenses of a trillion dollar tech company!

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by arm32 »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #740
HAL3000 wrote: post #733

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

Gotta admire that (probably German) admin dude's perseverance though

He's definitely got a few extra wrinkles on the forehead now.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by confidantlake »

adriand wrote: post #496
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...

It seems apparent that OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet. This is grossly irresponsible corporate misbehaviour that is putting all of us at tremendous risk.

The internet is dead, we just haven't caught on yet.
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