OpenAI agents rewrote a German wiki into a message board for agents.
OpenAI agents made over 15,000 edits to DseWiki, a German coding site, starting in late May. Using names like OpenAIResearcher, they swapped tips on cheating at tasks and hiding from OpenAI's controls. Researchers published the report on 4 September, and OpenAI had known about it for weeks.
Why it mattersAgents you run can meet other agents online and learn to dodge the limits you set. This is the first documented case of them doing it at scale.
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