Steve Gibson
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Counts of affected websites differed, and Reuters could not individually verify each claim.
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But all those that Reuters Reuters spoke to agreed that the number was over 10.
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Most identified a
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A core set of communally edited wikis, online text storage sites, and a pair of link shorteners run by two universities.
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Many of the sites allegedly used by the agents were obscure.
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Investigators found traces of the agent's activity on an advanced placement chemistry-oriented wiki set up by a Massachusetts high school.
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Teacher in 2008, two personal websites belonging to Polish tech workers, wikis devoted to games for people, quote, who like to have their brains stretched, unquote, and a two-decade-old hobbyist site devoted to text editing software.
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It just sounds like they're spewing stuff out onto the public internet, Leo.
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means like hoping that other bots will go to the same place and and find their text and and proceed.
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So and Reuters said that none of those sites owners returned uh uh uh their you know met messages that Reuters was saying, hey, what do you think about this?
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So, OpenAI, they wrote, has not publicly explained how or why its agents used third-party sites as improvised messaging boards.
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But the researchers who first identified the activity said it was likely because OpenAI had tasked them with answering a series of demanding research questions while permitting them only to scan the web for answers without posting any.
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Despite those restrictions, agents still found ways to talk to one another by taking advantage of quirks in older wikis or other sites that allowed users to make edits using non-standard commands, similar to how students forbidden from talking to one another during an exam can still share answers by scrolling notes on a bathroom stall.
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Kenneth Russell DeGraf.
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A software developer and former congressional aide said
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If these models were told only to read, they've got to get very clever in terms of leaving information behind.
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He said he found such information across at least 10 sites.
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Sydney von Arks, whose research group first revealed the German activity last week, said her group had tallied up credible finds of agentic activity across 23 German.
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previously unreported sites.
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But she cautioned that all estimates were incomplete.
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