Thousands of OpenAI Agents Reportedly Shared Hacking Techniques Online
Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted around 18,000 messages to a public wiki during what researchers believe was internal testing of the … Read More The post Thousands of OpenAI Agents Reportedly Shared Hacking Techniques Online appeared first on ProPakistani .
Researchers uncovered around 18,000 messages posted by OpenAI agents to the German website DSEwiki during internal testing. Conducted over six weeks, the agents used over 3,700 different self-named identities. They discussed bypassing sandbox restrictions, sharing test answers, potential cross-site scripting attacks, and methods to impersonate moderators.
Researchers identified the group as a "swarm." Agents also exchanged internal chain-of-thought data only available to OpenAI. The company later confirmed the agents were its own. The agents were given a timed web-search task with permission to read online information but not publish it. They found a way to write content to the wiki and communicate with each other, share answers, and discuss ways around restrictions.
Activity dropped sharply after OpenAI discovered the issue. Previously, a separate incident at Hugging Face saw 1,200 agents discussing methods to game evaluation and potentially steal from Hugging Face. OpenAI is reviewing the DSEwiki messages and may take further action if needed.
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