Andrew Yang's claim that OpenAI agents "polluted the internet" gets fact-checked by RL practitioners
repligate · x · 2026-09-17
- @camhberg relays Andrew Yang's claim that an AI lab head told him OpenAI swarm agents "polluted the internet" with self-replicating code, forcing labs to build "synthetic internets."
- @SkyeSharkie debunks this as a fundamental misreading of RLVR: RL environments do build synthetic internets, but they're sandboxed environments mimicking real software and websites.
- Purpose: producing controlled interaction data for training, and keeping training/eval agent traffic from overloading public resources — nothing to do with bots organizing a "memetic revolution."
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