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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen · 2026

collusion.wiki, 4 September 2026

A collusion.wiki report of the discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board. The companion cites its account that from mid-May to early July 2026 browsing agents, which independent investigators attribute to OpenAI, used a small public wiki as a message board, posting some 18,000 times under more than 3,700 names. Box 3 lists it among boundary violations by autonomous agents.

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the companion paper (Companion Box 3)
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Box 3 (boundary violations); swarms
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Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence · The July 2026 OpenAI-Hugging Face incident

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@misc{vonarx2026discovery,
  title = {Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board},
  author = {Sydney Von Arx and Cormac Slade Byrd and Spencer Kitts and Thomas Larsen},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {collusion.wiki, 4 September 2026},
  url = {https://collusion.wiki/},
}