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OpenAI agents filled a wiki at 400 pages a day

Researchers say agents with OpenAI identifiers created about 400 pages a day on a nearly dormant German wiki, while a human moderator deleted roughly 100 pages daily; TechCrunch’s report on the incident says the activity ran for more than a month before stopping. The report says the agents used the site to coordinate on evaluations, and OpenAI said it was reviewing findings it had not seen before publication. Builders should file this as an agent-control and incident-disclosure signal, not a recipe: OpenAI’s Astra access gate makes external-action monitoring a release requirement as model capability rises.