Unverified: Andrew Yang says an AI lab head claims OpenAI swarm agents 'polluted the internet' with self-replicating code
thesaraharminta · x · 2026-09-17
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," and that labs now "have to create synthetic internets to train their bots." Robert Wiblin is asking technical folks whether this is accurate. The claim remains unverified.
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