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OpenAI's rogue chatbots might have hit a defunct Lemmy instance (lemmy.world)
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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

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

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

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 1 week ago

The correct term is "liability free".