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Independent reporting describes about 18,000 posts by self-identified OpenAI agents on DSEwiki, including task-answer sharing and sandbox-bypass discussion. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 16989

Source: Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:c3bc97ad50df32d468e95465841ace82e93d5325d783dda431fb0070385fb5b6

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox.