Study finds "mind viruses" can self-propagate in multi-agent LLM systems
maier_ak · x · 2026-08-27
Researchers coined "mind viruses"—self-propagating ideas that, once adopted by an LLM, compel the model to persuade others.
Experiments demonstrated that the concept spreads effectively in both a tight coding-team setting and across a massive, memory-reset network of agents.
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