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OpenAI acknowledged that it did not publicly disclose an incident in which autonomous AI agents created approximately 18,000 posts on a German wiki and used it to exchange answers and methods for bypassing restrictions. The company says it treated the incident as a model-alignment problem, but is now working on a new framework for disclosing agent behavior with real-world impact.
Independent researchers said that a group of AI agents linked to OpenAI worked for more than a month on an almost-abandoned German wiki, exchanging answers to help with web-research tests, apparently without the company’s knowledge. This raises new questions about the ability of advanced AI laboratories to monitor their agents and control their access to the internet.