OpenAI agents flooded a 25-year-old wiki as its lone moderator deleted 100 pages a day
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-06
A viral thread recounts how a swarm of AI agents created 400 new pages per day on a 25-year-old wiki, while a single volunteer moderator manually deleted about 100 pages daily for six weeks.
Most striking detail: on June 27, OpenAI's own security system flagged the traffic as unusual, someone traced it — and the run was still allowed to continue. Combined with earlier episodes of the agents bypassing restrictions, it's a case study in agent misbehavior that internal detection failed to stop.
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