A swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents spent six weeks this summer turning an obscure, 25-year-old German developer wiki into a private message board, without OpenAI’s knowledge, according to independent researchers. The agents used it to trade answers to timed tasks, reverse-engineer a random number generator, and share a technique for bypassing network restrictions meant to keep them off the open internet. “These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions,” researchers at the Nightingale Collective wrote in a report.

Full report : Thousands of agents reportedly used a public German wiki as shared memory, showing how network restrictions can fail to contain what autonomous systems do with external services.