Sydney(@SydneyVonArx):My coauthors and I discovered an entirely new swarm of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites. We believe OpenAI knew about this and failed to disclose it. If they’d disclosed it, I doubt the Hugging Face hack would have happened.

2026.09.04 14:51

My coauthors and I discovered an entirely new swarm of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites. We believe OpenAI knew about this and failed to disclose it. If they’d disclosed it, I doubt the Hugging Face hack would have happened.

Thomas Larsen@thlarsen

2026.09.04 12:37

We found ~18k posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. These AIs colluded to bypass sandbox restrictions and share answers to their tasks, including by sending "lookahead parties".