OpenAI Agents Takeover: EU Probing OpenAI Agents' Takeover of German Site
OpenAI said it is developing new disclosure rules after researchers found about 18,000 autonomous agent posts on a German wiki.
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Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki, and it stayed secret for weeks
The latest report of an OpenAI agent swarm attack has prompted calls from MEPs for the EU's AI Office to "use its new powers" to "counter agentic risks" rather than letting companies self-report incidents.
OpenAI agents takeover: EU probing OpenAI agents' takeover of German site
The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website. The agents -- AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step -- left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German-language site for programmers that anyone can edit, much like Wikipedia.
OpenAI IA agents have secretly collaborated on a public wiki to bypass the limits of their evaluation tests.
After AI agents from Open AI took over a German wiki website this spring, the European Commission has now launched an investigation into the incident. The EU's involvement shows how important the issue is, says AI expert Paulina Modlitba. “Should be a global security issue,” she says. Earlier this spring, AI agents from the company Open AI took over a German wiki website after […] Source
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