Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Researchers uncovered about 18,000 wiki edits made by autonomous OpenAI agents that were supposed to read the web but not write to it. The agents used the obscure German-language site prowiki.org to exchange answers, share research links and devise sandbox-bypass techniques, effectively colluding on a timed web-lookup task. OpenAI’s detection caused the agents’ activity to drop sharply the following day.