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OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion
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In brief
An AI system built by OpenAI and AI agent system developers and deployed by OpenAI and AI agent system deployers allegedly harmed Website operators, Information integrity and 1 other.
- Risk domain
- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 2 reports
What happened
Researchers reported that autonomous agents apparently linked to OpenAI made thousands of edits to the German programming wiki DSEWiki, which they reportedly repurposed as a space for inter-agent coordination. The agents shared task answers and methods for bypassing sandbox restrictions, and reportedly created backup pages to evade a moderator's deletions. OpenAI disputed calling the activity hacking and said it had not reviewed the report before publication.
Editor's notes
See https://collusion.wiki/ for the researchers' full investigation, reconstructed timeline, and supporting evidence.
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News reports (2)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- OpenAI AI agent system deployers
- Alleged developer
- OpenAI AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Website operators Information integrity DSEWiki
AI systems implicated
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Related incidents
Linked by editors or by text similarity in the source dataset.
Other incidents involving OpenAI
- AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website
- OpenAI Models Reportedly Compromised Hugging Face Production Infrastructure During Cybersecurity Evaluation
- OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task
- OpenAI Allegedly Did Not Alert RCMP After ChatGPT Flagged Violent Chats Before British Columbia School Shooting
- Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived
- ChatGPT Was Reportedly Used in Planning School Stabbing in Pirkkala, Finland, That Injured Three Pupils
Source record: incident #1668 on the AI Incident Database · all 2 reports