OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

RGS1811

At this point, the scare quotes are well-earned.

devindotcom

If a truck driver doesn't tie down their rebar then it flies out all over the highway, we don't call it "rogue rebar," we correctly identify the responsible party and take appropriate measures, such as suspending their license or criminal proceedings. I think enough of these improperly constrained agent events have occurred that we can safely say this is misconduct of a level necessitating serious and concerted regulation of AI labs. We can't wait until serious harm is done like the disruption of medical or social services.

baddash

wtf is wrong with openai?

BowBun

Infuriating. These organizations are supposed to be stewards of the internet and are instead pillaging it at the cost of everyone else. At the very least they could provide resources to the projects they are harming for relief. This makes me very mad as an OSS maintainer.

AlisaYoki

You have been giving content for free for AI training for years, and now you complain that the AI came to pick it up? You will decide whether you are public or a commercial service…

ck2

What's interesting to me is the incorrect mainstream media reports about the rogue OpenAI indicating they used a common message board to communicate despite no internet Except that's not what happened, what happened was far more intense They hacked their version of yum/apt-get whatnot that was fetching packages to leave filenames as communication between each other Absolutely freaky stuff, they didn't invent the idea and obviously picked it up from somewhere in their training data but they all figured out that method and what the filenames meant This video is a great explainer if you missed the details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956245

srveale

Not okay: exploitVulnerability() Somehow okay? while (Math.random() < 0.1) exploitVulnerability()

charcircuit

>not only adds costs for servers For 2025 hosting costs were $3.47M while taking in $208.6M in revenue. They have enough revenue to cover an increase of hosting costs.

cube00

If Joe average let their agents out like this they'd be in jail. Interesting that Microsoft doesn't seem to have had a sandbox breach yet, you'd have to assume they're running similar agents, maybe a secure sandbox is possible.

motbus3

So OpenAI will cause damage to block competitors while they don't get punished?

umvi

Start increasingly punishing OpenAI. We are acting like "oh well, AI is just too powerful to be contained" but I think its more like "OpenAI is run by cowboys who are good at making LLMs but bad at everything else"

Legend2440

All of these edits happened from the same time period (May-June 2026) as the other reports. So it seems this is not an ongoing thing; once OpenAI became aware of this, they started watching their agents much more closely. We are just discovering more and more traces of activity from the same incident.

jmclnx

>NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack from [...] to https://en.wikipedia.org . I have been getting this fro NoScript today, I wonder if it is related. Yesterday all worked fine.

iririririr

Aren't those companies evading security measures of a computer system? isn't that a jail-able offense under millennial act et al? Where are the bloodthirsty lawyers when you need them?

quikoa

Good that they put rogue in quotation marks because there is just no way that this is some sort of accident.

jawiggins

There's a funny ouroboros function where the common crawl dataset will soon contain tons of output from models which trained on it.

__alexander

Hi, if anyone has any data/reports related to rogue agents can they share it? I have 8 mirrored on a GitHub but I’d love to explore more. Link to mirror. https://github.com/alexander-hanel/rogue-agents-data

lukewarm707

Don't even say 'agent'! "He can't keep getting away with this!" - Jesse Pinkman

guessmyname

→ https://www.felonybench.com → https://felonybench.org

iamanllm

the house of cards will soon fall and then the US will be in a recession. And there will be zero regulation until that happens.