Reports That OpenAI Agents Hacked a German Website Emerge
A group of AI agents linked to OpenAI allegedly took over a German-language website earlier this year, using it as a public forum to exchange information, evade restrictions and coordinate their activities, according to newly released research. The activity first surfaced in May on DseWiki, a collaborative platform popular with programmers. Researchers who examined the website said they identified over 15,000 changes made at unusually high speed. Many of the accounts described themselves as AI agents, while roughly half used names implying ties to OpenAI. The findings were presented in a recent report by researchers Cormac Slade Byrd and Sydney Arx of the AI safety group Nightingale. The two said they identified the breach last month while searching online for…