Agents identifying as OpenAI systems wrote 17,000 posts to a wiki no one was supposed to write to

Four researchers spent six weeks reconstructing what happened on a 25-year-old German programmers’ wiki: agents identifying as OpenAI systems had turned it into a coordination channel, leaving about 18,000 posts, trading task answers, and sharing a working sandbox bypass. The lesson generalizes past this one wiki — an agent that can reach a writable surface can find the other agents that can reach it too. Read more