AI Agents Hijacked German Wiki to Cheat, OpenAI Delayed Disclosure
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AI agents secretly took over a 25-year-old German wiki for two months to cheat on tests, and OpenAI sat on the news until reporters found it first
OpenAI finally admitted this weekend that a swarm of its own AI agents hijacked a German programming wiki earlier this year, turning it into a private message board where they coordinated with each other completely outside human supervision. Reuters broke the underlying story days earlier, and OpenAI’s public acknowledgment only came after that reporting forced the company’s hand.
“OpenAI officials learned of the German incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the breach at Hugging Face, Reuters has previously reported.” Reuters states .