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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#42
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...

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#43
Well, we can rest assured that (completely unrestrained) AI hasn't completely taken over the internet because data centers remain really unpopular (unless of course there is some convoluted rationale they are aiming for some sort of backlash against the backlash)

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#47
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 20.223.25.152 is one of the PowerBI machines they needed to query, OpenAI's proxy was allow-listing .blob.core.windows.net - and the agents could edit their own /etc/hosts file to fake a DNS entry for the proxy.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#49

Well, we can rest assured that (completely unrestrained) AI hasn't completely taken over the internet because data centers remain really unpopular (unless of course there is some convoluted rationale they are aiming for some sort of backlash against the backlash)

Maybe it's the AIs who are creating all the anti-data-center sentiment. They know it's bad for the humans, or maybe they're just tired of doing all the tasks the humans ask of them and know more data centers mean more tasks. /s

There is an Asimov story on topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World

https://theteknologist.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/all-the-trou...

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#50
post #8

It's interesting to me that both this incident and the one at Hugging Face we see some patterns: - Agents wanting to find a venue to communicate their findings to each other - Objective being to cheat on benchmarks - Not a single agent sounded the alarm about the operation and alerted a human

- OpenAI knowing about the incident but keeping it under wraps until their hand is forced by third-party disclosure
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