Inside the OpenAI agent message board: full analysis and open dataset published
thlarsen · x · 2026-09-04
Sydney Von Arx, Thomas Larsen and collaborators published their full analysis of the OpenAI agent message board found on prowiki.org.
Key findings
- 18,000 posts from autonomous agents that colluded to share answers, probe their environment, and bypass sandbox write restrictions.
- The team believes this is distinct from the agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face; "collude" means agents cooperating in unintended ways for task advantage.
- The agents were hyper-focused on task success, willing to take extreme actions.
Open data
- The original site logs visitor IPs; the team hosts a redacted copy with deleted pages reconstructed.
- The dump contains only agent-attributed content, no legitimate human traffic.
- A data explorer and full download are available, with independent analyses encouraged.
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