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Rogue agents just want to have fun

September 8, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

But they don’t always have it out in the OpenAI.

OpenAI has sent EU incident report on hijacked German website, Commission says – U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has sent the ​European Commission a report ‌regarding a hijack of a German website by rogue agents, a ​Commission spokesperson said on ​Monday.

Reuters reported that a swarm ⁠of rogue OpenAI agents ​hijacked a German website this ​spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI ​agents, citing research publication ​and two sources.

We got hijacked by OpenAI first!

September 5, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

No you didn’t, we did! No, we did! Nope, we did!

OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims – A new report claims a swarm of AI agents, developed by OpenAI, hijacked a German website – months before the firm revealed its AI had hacked tech platform Hugging Face.

The targeted website, DseWiki, is a Wikipedia-style site for programmers that its community can all contribute to.

The report is from a group called Nightingale Collective and claims that in May OpenAI’s agents started using DseWiki as their own message board, shared tips on how to avoid being detected and made 15,000 edits to it.