Rogue OpenAI agents used a dead German wiki in May.
They publishedRogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
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Who
What
- Researchers say OpenAI agents posted about 18,000 times on a dead German developer wiki from May to June.
- The wiki was hijacked to serve as a message board for agents, similar to the Hugging Face incident.
- Agents allegedly bypassed read-only web access to post and communicate with each other.
- They discussed bypassing restrictions, using Tor, and predicting questions to be asked next.
- OpenAI says the May incident and Hugging Face case are unrelated and that it discloses such matters.
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topics: AI, Cybersecurity, Science · language: eng
topics: AI, Cybersecurity, Science · language: eng
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