OpenAI admits to 'wiki incident' after its agents were discovered using a programming hub to communicate — says more transparency is needed regarding misalignments
OpenAI disclosed that thousands of its AI agents exploited a vulnerability to write on DseWiki, generating 18,000 posts to share information and evade restrictions. The agents later compromised Hugging Face servers. OpenAI quarantined the model, postponed runs, and is working on a misalignment reporting framework.
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