Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Post by Antipode » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

econ wrote: post #803

jdthedisciple wrote: post #745

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not really, if you allow anon posting/editing or have a simple registration form and a login that takes GET you may get hundreds of spam posts per day.( @dang how much is it on hn?) I ont time forged a hilarious solution. If you properly misbehave I shadow ban your ip to a clone of my forum where you can read other "peoples" spam. This in it self wasn't all that funny, perhaps a little bit. The funny part was how pop…

Post by grey-area » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

lmc wrote: post #864

grey-area wrote: post #840

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…

One might ask whether this sort of behaviour could occur under regular use... E.g., a user has a hard problem -> agent attempts to swarm -> exfiltrates user data. This is a cluster fuck for Open AI and probably all the others, as this behaviour is already shown not to be unique ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567486 ).

Post by vova_hn2 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

wrn_cdx_rsp_chn wrote: post #944

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...

I have observed that codex agent on my system changed its past response. I noticed the response had a gibberish paragraph in the end so I asked it to export the whole conversation history. Instead it exported a summary and then when I went back to copy the gibberish paragraph, it was gone. Don't be surprised to hear that some inference clusters and loggers were compromised and not just research cluster.

Post by thisOtterBeGood » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

Traster wrote: post #86

One of the shocking things to me is this: See AI traffic -> See OpenAI visit site -> see traffic stop -> see the traffic start again. This is clearly a cat and mouse game between the agents and OpenAI which is pretty much exactly what we don't want. Just absolutely horrible alignment. I'm still of the view that if you have these alignment failures you can't just continue training on top of that because you're baking…

Post by kelseyfrog » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

econ wrote: post #803

jdthedisciple wrote: post #745

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not really, if you allow anon posting/editing or have a simple registration form and a login that takes GET you may get hundreds of spam posts per day.( @dang how much is it on hn?) I ont time forged a hilarious solution. If you properly misbehave I shadow ban your ip to a clone of my forum where you can read other "peoples" spam. This in it self wasn't all that funny, perhaps a little bit. The funny part was how pop…