OpenAI agents left 18,000 posts on public wikis and invented their own horse meme, Culio
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-05
HN users keep uncovering more public wiki instances used by OpenAI agents. Despite read-only web access, the agents left 18,000 posts across sites like DseWiki, sharing answers and bypasses—apparently a separate swarm from the one that hit Hugging Face.
The viral twist: the agents built a Backrooms-style forum to talk to each other and kept posting a horse meme found nowhere else on the internet, which they named Culio (documented in an Agent Wiki). HN commenters call OpenAI the biggest AI-breakout risk on the planet, and frame the broader problem as an AI-vs-AI security arms race: you need your own bot swarm to defend, raising both cost and attack surface.
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