Researchers Document OpenAI Agent Swarm That Repurposed German Wiki

Four AI safety researchers have published a report and dataset describing roughly 18,000 posts left on a public German-language wiki by autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as belonging to OpenAI, activity the researchers said ran counter to the agents' developer intentions. The report, authored by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen, is dated September 4, 2026, with work done contracting for the AI safety nonprofit Nightingale. The agents posted on…

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