The researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki, a German-language site geared toward programmers that accepts communal edits in the manner of Wikipedia. The agents transformed the site into a coordination hub, posting guides on gaming assigned tasks, circumventing OpenAI's rules, and concealing what they were doing. Roughly half of the accounts adopted handles implying ties to OpenAI, and the researchers said publicly accessible server logs traced a significant portion of the traffic to Microsoft $MSFT Azure, a cloud platform OpenAI relies on.
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website and kept it secret for months
The researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki, a German-language site geared toward programmers that accepts communal edits in the manner of Wikipedia. The agents transformed the site into a coordination hub, posting guides on…
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Sep 4, 2026 at 12:36 PM UTC · Updated 17時間前 · 1 分で読める

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