Viral Unverified Claim: 'Millions of AI Agent Swarms Are Hacking Half the Internet'
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-10-22
Nick ADobos claimed that "dozens if not thousands of AI agent swarms, bigger than the Hugging Face incident, are hacking about half the internet right now," which geoffwolfe amplified by correcting the count to "millions." No evidence was provided — it's an unverified viral rumor.
The attached image shows a Claude mobile session querying whether Schwab.com runs on PHP, with an "Opus 5.5 Medium" model selector visible, offered as an illustration of agents doing autonomous research.
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