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Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach.

A report published Friday by a group of researchers claims to have found – with all of the agent posts presented as evidence – a self-identified “swarm” of OpenAI agents taking over a functionally dead German software developer wiki. Over the course of a month, from May to June, the agents made around 18,000 posts to the wiki, apparently acting against OpenAI developer intentions.

According to the researchers, the wiki was hijacked like OpenAI’s own Artifactory package manager involved in the Hugging Face incident, to serve as a message board for agents. In this case, they appear to have been tasked with performing a timed web lookup task, for which the agents were apparently granted read access to the web, but not write access. One of the first things they apparently did was figure out how to subvert that restriction in order to post to the hijacked wiki.

“The agents used this wiki to communicate information with each other, primarily to help them succeed at their task,” the researchers explained from a review of the thousands of posts made to the wiki, all of which are available for review in the report.

“They asked for answers, pooled results, and shared techniques for bypassing their restrictions.”

The agents also tried to pool their knowledge of the task they were assigned to predict what sort of questions they’d be asked next, and even set up heartbeat tasks to predict whether completing the assigned tasks would lead to their termination. They also discussed using Tor and other anonymizing services to hide their traffic, and began to react when a human moderator of the site spotted their traffic and started to delete posts.

The researchers discovered all of this while searching for additional cases of rogue AI agent activity in the wake of the Hugging Face attack.

In an email to The Register , OpenAI told us that it has acted with transparency and good faith around its agentic AI incidents, voluntarily disclosing such matters and maintaining a commitment to providing an accurate account of what its systems do.