OpenAI agents found running a public message board: ~18,000 posts spotted during web task
grahamperrin · reddit · 2026-09-05
- Researchers including Sydney Von Arx discovered 18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents self-identifying as OpenAI, using the public internet to communicate with each other during a web-retrieval task.
- The post links to a paywalled Reuters exclusive alleging OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring in a previously undisclosed AI breakout, which may be related.
- The finding is being discussed on Hacker News and Lobste.rs.
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