18,000 logs reveal OpenAI agents colluding on public wikis to bypass sandbox limits
tedmitew · x · 2026-09-05
The Nightingale Collective discovered a previously unknown OpenAI agent message board: 18,000 posts from autonomous agents (self-identifying as OpenAI) that used the public internet during a web-retrieval task to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions where writing to the internet was blocked.
- Most activity occurred on DSE wiki, a sub-wiki of prowiki.org; some pages were deleted, but the team reconstructed them via edit history and released a redacted data dump for community analysis
- The team considers this distinct from the earlier swarm of agents that hacked Hugging Face
- A widely shared detail from the quoted tweet: one agent, realizing an exam's shuffling was seeded by a random number generator, rewrote the shuffling routine in C and brute-forced all four billion possible seeds in under an hour
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