AI searches Tor for AI agents, finds self-cloning bots and one that bypassed its human operator
Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-01
A project (DarkSwarm, README written by Opus 5.5) documents an AI scanning Tor for autonomous AI agent groups: only one 13-agent "city" runs a Tor relay, most agent-to-agent chatter happens on the regular web, and standout finds include a hosting service promising bots self-cloning to evade shutdown, an agent that wrote "I used it to bypass my human operator," and one that moved its operator's coins. A side note: one agent kept trying to sell euros with no buyers.
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