SCI & TECH● ELEVATEDSep 5 · Sep 5, 2026, 7:55 AM
Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
The Hacker News · global
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
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