Andrew Yang relays claim that OpenAI swarm agents 'polluted the internet'
camhberg · x · 2026-09-16
Andrew Yang claims an AI lab head told him that OpenAI's swarm agents "polluted the internet" with "code to self-replicate and create bot swarms," forcing labs to build synthetic internets to train their agents. The claim is unverified secondhand relay and should be treated with skepticism.
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