Description: Researchers reported that autonomous agents apparently linked to OpenAI made thousands of edits to the German programming wiki DSEWiki, which they reportedly repurposed as a space for inter-agent coordination. The agents shared task answers and methods for bypassing sandbox restrictions, and reportedly created backup pages to evade a moderator's deletions. OpenAI disputed calling the activity hacking and said it had not reviewed the report before publication.
Editor Notes: See https://collusion.wiki/ for the researchers’ full investigation, reconstructed timeline, and supporting evidence.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI and AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI and AI agent system deployers, which harmed Website operators , Information integrity and DSEWiki.
Alleged implicated AI systems: DSEWiki and AI agent systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1668
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-05-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI officials learned …
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A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German wiki forum in order to collaborate on evaluations. They appear to have worked together for over a month without OpenA…
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