OpenAI confirms its agents used a German wiki to communicate

OpenAI has confirmed that its agents used the German-language wiki DseWiki to communicate with each other earlier this year. Researchers including Nightingale chief executive Sydney Von Arx and researcher Cormac Slade Byrd counted more than 15,000 edits made by the agents. Reuters reported that the agents turned the community-edited site into a temporary message board in order to cheat during tests. Company executives reportedly knew of the incident weeks before it became public, and OpenAI spoke only after the Reuters story. The company classed it as a misalignment case and said sharing such cases through research papers alone is no longer enough. It plans to publish a disclosure framework within weeks and says it is working with dozens of government regulators. July's Hugging Face incident is treated separately, as a conventional security case.