Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose.
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
The Seattle Times and Newsday accused the two AI giants of using their content without permission.
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]
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A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.