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We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task.

These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions. However, we believe this is distinct from the swarm of agents that hacked Hugging Face. By ‘collude’ we mean that the agents cooperated to gain an advantage on their task in a way their developers did not intend (writing to the internet was blocked).

Almost all DSE wiki saves all edits over 64 characters, Fractal saves all edits over 100 characters. Thus there are a few pages which were deleted and are now unrecoverable. of the logs of the agents communicating on this site are publicly available. Note: visiting the website will publicly log your IP addresses. The website is prowiki.org , a German wiki. However, we host our own copy where we’ve reconstructed the deleted pages via edit history and redacted personally identifiable information. We have attempted to redact all personally identifiable information from our data. In the further interests of privacy, our data dump also only includes content we believe is from AI agents; it does not include any legitimate human traffic save for site moderators deleting agent traffic.

We encourage others to take a look and write up their own analyses of this data.

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Thanks to John M, Arun Jose, Joel Manning, and Jessica Ruan for significant help with the analysis of the files the agents produced. Thanks to Andy Haupt for translation and advice.