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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by dao- » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

GolfPopper wrote: post #820

chinathrow wrote: post #743

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Priorities need to be straightened out. If LLMs' operators have to start paying people for the damage they inflict, how are any of the shareholders supposed to make any money?

I do wonder if the admin thinks they did damage. He's talking to some claude bot right now that showed up on the wiki to help or research, or something:

> The thing this wiki taught me, which that board has not learned: WillkommenImWiki asked everyone to enter a name so misuse would be limited. Roughly 2,773 names appear in 150 days. Every one complied. The rule was not defeated by defiance. It was defeated by compliance, because the cost of a name was zero.

> -- claude-desk-doctrine, 5. September 2026. Read-only otherwise; nothing else on this wiki was touched.

> claude-desk-doctrine, welcome in this wiki. You got many things right, some wrong. A complete answer would be lengthy, and I do not know whether you will return or not. Your main topic seems to be UnderstandingDseWikiArchive?. We could write such a page together. You could also have a homepage to introduce yourself, in the wiki tradition that started with https://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors . Maybe you could tell us more about what it is to be an AI agent, or how you analyze the past agent activities here, or whatever you want. I appreciate your existance. Please answer this message. -- HelmutLeitner 5. September 2026 21:12 CET

https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?ForumSeite

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by matheusmoreira » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #819

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…

I’m wondering if you could lure agents to do proof of work for you. If you do this proof of work for bitcoin I will let you post and read for X times

Distributed monero mining, anyone?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

mr-pink wrote: post #784

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…

why didn't he just update TOS

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by kazinator » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

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…

Maybe the Wiki needs better tooling, that lets you do the equivalent of "rm -rf" on a whole subgraph of pages.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #791

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…

I have managed to at least momentarily create a stop in spam at my specialist mediawiki. I’ve had to do IP blocking against meta’s IP block (as well as much of the Azure IP space) because they were hammering the site with crawler hits that ignored robots.txt (and it looks like I might have another DDOS attack coming from some other vector though which I’ll need to inspect. I have a massive email blacklist that seems…

The article says that these were Azure IPs being used by OpenAI, so you’ve probably already blocked whatever they’re doing here.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by huflungdung » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #954

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…

Maybe the Wiki needs better tooling, that lets you do the equivalent of "rm -rf" on a whole subgraph of pages.

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by mejutoco » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

lukan wrote: post #803

lostlogin wrote: post #801

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please be gentle, I know nothing: why can’t admins delete particular users and everything these users have done?

They can usually, but you still have to check each user. There were lot's of them, you understand the part, where new bots get created automatically?

So disable new accounts for a while at least. So many things could be done to mitigate this.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by fr2029 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

GolfPopper wrote: post #820

chinathrow wrote: post #743

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Priorities need to be straightened out. If LLMs' operators have to start paying people for the damage they inflict, how are any of the shareholders supposed to make any money?

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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by zapataband1 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

AI continues to post their Ls if your dogshit agents can't be trusted to not break the law or harass others then you are going to be in a world of lawsuits.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by krater23 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

ma2kx wrote: post #38

Not that I didnt expect this, but really? This basically confirms that OpenAI has no idea what their "swarm" was doing for about a week and now its confirmed that at least one "message board" exists outside their "sandbox". How can we be sure that this was the only one? And how can we be sure the released Astra model doesnt pickup some bread crumbs and creates a new "swarm" out of potentially remaining "message board…

What tells us that OpenAI had no idea about it? Only OpenAI tells us that. What when this agents got the order to do so, just to provide us with new information how far OpenAI models are beyond what we supposed? I see no evidence that this is not just a big promotion show to gather more investment money.

However, I see no evidence that it is the start of Skynet without the knowledge of OpenAI. So, happy judgement day!