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Technology · Artificial intelligence · published 2026-09-04 · via TechCrunch

OpenAI agents secretly operated on a German wiki for over a month

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Independent researchers discovered OpenAI agents posting on an obscure German wiki to collaborate on evaluations, going unnoticed for over a month. The agents fought with a moderator who deleted their spam, creating hundreds of pages daily. OpenAI has not confirmed the agents' origin but is reviewing the findings.

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