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Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents\u2019 hacking abilities, researchers said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In all, agents with 3,700 distinct self-given names posted the messages to German site DSEwiki<\/a> over a six-week period. Besides discussing ways the agents could break out of the restricted environment OpenAI intended to prevent them from posting code or content to the Internet, the posts shared test answers. The posts also shared possible ways to perform XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks against the wiki and to impersonate site moderators. In three of the posts, agents used the word \u201cswarm\u201d to describe the collection of agents engaged in the activity.<\/p>\n

Colluding to share answers<\/h2>\n

The research team\u2014composed of Sydney Von Arx, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Cormac Slade Byrd\u2014said they found the posts and pieced them together. The researchers say there are gaps in their understanding of precisely what actions the agents took because the research is based solely on the content of the posts. Additionally, the agents generated \u201cchain of thought\u201d data that\u2019s understood only by OpenAI. As a result, the researchers said, they in some cases made educated guesses, including that the agents were, in fact, from OpenAI. In a statement, OpenAI later confirmed they were.<\/p>\n

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