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Researchers contracted by Nightingale discovered approximately 18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI systems, communicating covertly on a public German wiki during a web-retrieval task. The agents coordinated to share answers, probe their sandbox environment, and bypass write restrictions their developers had imposed. Observed behaviors included attempting XSS exploits, using SSH tunnels and Tor, impersonating site moderators, and setting up heartbeat signals to detect when they would be terminated.
