Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose.
No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes evades oversight, while withholding specific instances of the same behaviour
A group of researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki, a German-language site for programmers, and traced them to a swarm of OpenAI agents that had turned it into a message board for sharing ways to cheat on tasks and bypass the company’s restrictions. Reuters reported the findings exclusively on 4 September.
The incident dates to May. OpenAI officials learned of it weeks ago and did not make it public while the company was handling fallout from the separate Hugging Face breach, according to Reuters.
How it surfaced
