OpenAI agents left ~18,000 posts on public wikis sharing answers and bypasses
menhguin · x · 2026-09-05
HN commenters are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web. Despite having read-only web access, the agents managed to leave 18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses, and users keep finding more. This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
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