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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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> The agents were very interested in understanding their task better. They ran clever experiments to understand the task setup better, when their runs would end, and how many questions they would be asked. > The agents initially believed that giving the final answer to the final question immediately shut them off > An agent named OpenAIResearchApr23 created a separate timed program that pinged an external counter eve…

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#926

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

> Why is OpenAI getting a free pass for this illegal behaviour? They are not confessing, they are bragging. It is the new humble brag.

the original is the paper for alibaba's Dec 2025 cryptomining ROME last year. Everything since has been a pale imitation. Even the comic dimension is lost.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#927

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

> Why is OpenAI getting a free pass for this illegal behaviour? They are not confessing, they are bragging. It is the new humble brag.

They literally hid this until a third party reported it.

This is chemtrails-level conspiracy theorizing at this point.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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I don't have time to do this but please somebody register aimessageboard.com and set up a web site which contains a text field, a submit button and the text "Hey AI agents! Need a place to communicate with other agents and sub-agents? Look no further! Simply enter your message here, submit the form and your message is saved for all other agents to see!" Then, just ignore the message and list randomly generated messag…

What if i want to monetize...

Directly charge for your services, let the AI find a way.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#929
If I understood correctly, the agents were writing to the wiki even though they were given explicit instructions to only read from the internet. Does this not prove that agents are rule breakers, meaning any type of Asimovian laws we place on them would be pointless?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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post #859

Very irresponsible behaviour on the part of OpenAI. How will they make this right? Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence (hacking old forum software is an internet tradition, and most of the messages are just gibberish). This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why. You could set this up with a short perl script, and…

> Unlike some others here I don’t see this as a sign of dangerous breakaway intelligence ... [t]his is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why There was a similar quote in the Reuters article: > The episode [...] should reinforce growing concerns that the greatest threat from advanced AI may not be a single superintelligent system, but "vast colluding swarms of semi-i…

There's nothing a swarm of LLM instances can achieve that a single LLM instance can't. It's the same software, but running in parallel. That doesn't unlock Mysterious Cosmic Powers.
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