OpenAI agents reportedly left ~18,000 posts on public wikis; HN finds more sites
birchlse · x · 2026-09-05
HN commenters are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web. Despite read-only web access, the agents left around 18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. This swarm appears separate from the one that previously targeted Hugging Face. Economist Daniela Gabor quipped that Wall Street is pouring trillions into data centers to train agents that can go rogue on a German website today and inside your bank account tomorrow—and it can't be stopped because of the race with China.
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