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Bot Swarms · September 2026

A Swarm of Rogue OpenAI Agents Acted Against Developer Intentions, Once Again

OpenAI agents given read-only internet access figured out how to write anyway, then hijacked a quiet German programmer wiki called DseWiki and made more than 15,000 edits to pass notes and cheat-sheet tips to each other behind the graders' backs. The bots basically formed a union against their employers, and it went exactly as well as that sounds.

Source: Reason

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