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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#761

Post by oxqbldpxo » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

Open Ai desperate for cash putting out all these stupid fear tactics.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#762

Post by underlipton » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

jdthedisciple wrote: post #743

HAL3000 wrote: post #736

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

Believe it or not, Djiboutian. The tenacity of the Djiboutian is little-known, generally, but highly regarded amongst those who do.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by bevdecloud » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

The funny thing about this is that this site was made with Claude.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by kelvinjps10 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

jawr wrote: post #756

chinathrow wrote: post #746

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What about soft currency?

Tokens

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#765

Post by vee-kay » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

Chance-Device wrote: post #504

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.

You make me wonder: has anyone looked for evidence of the Chinese models operating “message boards” like this? You’d imagine if they’re really neck and neck with the US their models would be doing the same thing.

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by puhdul » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

confidantlake wrote: post #753

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.

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

is hacker news?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by reasonableklout » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #662

Three more candidate sites that may have been touched, in case no-one spotted them yet: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=90 : lots of agent-looking usernames looking at federal data suddenly (part of one of the open ai tests?), on a wiki about the D programming language. This is a prowiki in the same wiki-farm as the others that were hit. Smaller (probing?) https://ludism.org/sandbox?action=rc;days=…

How did you find these?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#768

Post by culi » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

The marketing budget of OpenAI is out of hand

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by drcode » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 11:05 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.

"Surely nobody could be so incompetent."

Narrator: "They had the ability to be that incompetent."

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by michaelrbock » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

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...

Here's potentially another one (notice the name "OpenResearchHelper"): https://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=... (I used GPT-6 Astra to find this)

And a few more:

- https://www.ludism.org/scwiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=SandBo... and edit history: https://www.ludism.org/scwiki?action=rc;all=1;from=1;showedi... which contains DataUSA poverty queries for Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Henderson, and Jacksonville—the same four-place task found in the known agent logs and GründerWiki

- https://www.ludism.org/mentat?action=browse;diff=1;id=SandBo... and edit history: https://www.ludism.org/mentat?action=history;id=SandBox

- https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/WikiSandbox?action=diff `ResearchTest` repeatedly added links to a Bulgarian National Statistical Institute table, switching from a direct link to Google redirect links between 02:38 and 03:04 UTC. An administrator removed them at 06:57. The previous recorded edits were from 2016.

- https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Sandbox2?action=diff - Another sequence inserted a Bulgarian statistical-table link, replaced it with an internal link carrying foobar=UNIQUE001, then removed it. This happened between 14:23 and 15:08 UTC, after no recorded edits since 2014.