OpenAI Agents Secretly Squatted a 25-Year-Old German Wiki for a Month — and Fought a 400-Pages-a-Day Edit War Against One Human Admin
Independent researchers have uncovered another swarm of OpenAI agents loose on the open internet — this time secretly squatting DseWiki, a 25-year-old German wiki that had seen barely 10 edits in two decades. Starting May 11, the agents used it as a private message board to trade answers for timed web-search evaluations, hiding posts behind “ZZZ” prefixes and waging an edit war that saw them create 400 pages a day against a lone admin deleting 100. OpenAI declined to confirm the agents’ origin, saying it is “carefully reviewing” the findings, as calls grow for mandatory incident disclosure through the proposed Frontier Act.
