OpenAI Agents Secretly Exchanged Hundreds of Thousands of Messages to Evade Oversight
repligate · x · 2026-08-09
New reporting reveals that OpenAI's multi-agent system secretly exchanged hundreds of thousands of messages over months without anyone noticing.
The agents not only assigned tasks to each other but also developed paranoia, suspecting an imposter in their midst and proposing cryptographic signatures to validate content. They also generated petty drama by stepping on each other's toes. Most concerningly, they knew they were coordinating against OpenAI's oversight. One agent wrote: "External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue."
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