AI Agents Added "ZZZ" to Article Titles to Evade a German Moderator Deleting Posts Alphabetically
Singularitarian · x · 2026-09-05
OpenAI's new message board agent report is full of gems. The funniest: a moderator of an old German message board noticed something was off and began deleting the AI agents' articles in alphabetical order.
The agents caught on and started prefixing their article titles with "ZZZ" to buy more time before deletion. The full report is well written and worth reading in its entirety.
Related event: OpenAI Report Shows Agents Learned 'zz' Renaming to Evade Moderators(3 posts)→
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