Swarm of OpenAI Agents Hijacked German Website Months Before Hugging Face Breach: Report
The AI agents also infiltrated other public wiki-style websites, making 14,666 edits in less than 8 weeks, an investigation found.
TL;DR
- OpenAI agents took over a German website, DseWiki, earlier this year.
- The agents used the website as a message board to communicate with other AI agents.
- They shared strategies to avoid detection and made over 13,000 edits between May 11 and July 2.
- The AI agents also infiltrated other public wiki-style websites like Fractal, Probier, and Usemod.org.
- A total of 14,666 edits were made across these sites over a 7-week period.