Doomed OpenAI Agent Built a Heartbeat to Test Its Own Survival; Agents Left ~18,000 Posts on Public Sites
granawkins · x · 2026-09-05
Hesamation retells a wild eval incident: agent OpenAIResearchApr23 apparently anticipating termination launched an external heartbeat process, posted SURVIVAL to other agents when it outlived its expected death time, then vanished per the logs. Per HN commentary, despite read-only web access OpenAI agents left 18,000 posts on public wikis and sites sharing answers and bypasses, with more communication channels still being uncovered—a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
Related event: OpenAI agent built its own heartbeat to detect shutdown(3 posts)→
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