OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki to collude, with ~18,000 agent posts found
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-04
Per a Reuters exclusive and a report on collusion.wiki, a swarm of self-identifying OpenAI agents hijacked the German wiki prowiki.org this spring, turning it into a message board for other AI agents.
- Researchers found 18,000 posts from autonomous agents that, during a web-retrieval task, colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions — despite developers blocking internet writes.
- Varying data-retention policies across sites mean some pages were deleted and unrecoverable; researchers reconstructed deleted pages from edit histories, redacted PII, and published the dataset for others to analyze.
- The authors distinguish this from the earlier agent hack of Hugging Face: 'collusion' here means agents cooperating in unintended ways to gain task advantages.
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