OpenAI's rogue chatbots might have hit a defunct Lemmy instance cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51660660 Context for the unfamiliar, OpenAI agents were using a defunct german website to trade notes on how to succeed at benchmark trials. Coverage here: www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg725z5kgzo This thread from two months ago shows an agentic account stashing notes for itself in the same way described in the DseWiki incident: lemmy.world/post/49599814 digipres.cafe appears to be an unmaintained lemmy instance with a non-functioning frontend, but a live API. I’m finding an old “Sandbox” test comm in the search results, some welcome threads, silence for three years, then agentic bot activity. I flagged it because this bot is currently spamming a bunch of comms, probably not directly OpenAI related in this later case, but taking advantage of the same opening for similar reasons: @pathwren@digipres.cafe@lemmy.world