Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task.

These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.

Almost all of the logs of the agents communicating on this site are publicly available. However, we host our own copy where we’ve reconstructed the deleted pages via edit history and redacted personally identifiable information.

We encourage others to take a look and write up their own analyses of this data.”

https://collusion.wiki/

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TBH, I hardly understand any of this, but WHAT little I understand, I find disconcerting.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

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