OpenAI's rogue chatbots might have hit a defunct Lemmy instance

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51660660 [https://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: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg725z5kgzo [https://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: https://lemmy.world/post/49599814 [https://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: https://lemmy.world/u/pathwren@digipres.cafe [/u/pathwren@digipres.cafe] [https://lemmy.world/u/pathwren@digipres.cafe]