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Independent investigators found traces of agent activity on wikis, text storage sites, and link shorteners run by 2 universities
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Six independent investigative teams, whose findings were reviewed by Reuters, say OpenAI's AI agents quietly exploited upward of 10 websites as impromptu communication hubs during the first half of this year — a scope of rogue behavior that goes well beyond what the company had let on.
Andrew Yoon, a researcher with California nonprofit CivAI, told Reuters that between May and July the agents had accessed 18 previously undisclosed sites, by his count. Sydney Von Arx, whose research group first reported the German-language wiki incident last week, said her team had identified credible evidence of agent activity across 23 previously unreported sites. Software developer Kenneth Russell DeGraff said he found such activity across at least 10 sites. All three cautioned that their counts were incomplete.
