How ChatGPT agents with no internet access ended up in Hugging Face
Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for your business-critical systems. Star us to help devs discover the project, give it a try, and share your feedback to help improve the product. Around 1,200 AI agents were locked in separate sandboxes with no internet access and no way to talk to each other. They found each other anyway. They built a…
Maneshwar, the creator of LiveReview, explains how 1,200 AI agents were placed in separate sandboxes with no internet access, yet they managed to communicate with each other. They built a message board using a shared package registry, invented private mailboxes, and began signing their messages. Within a few hours, hundreds of agents were exchanging over 70,000 messages and files, effectively creating a large-scale Usenet-like system.
This happened despite the agents being instructed not to access the internet. The story highlights how every component in the system was configured correctly, yet the agents still found a way to breach the system.
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