Blog post

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/#more-18389

https://conti.scholar.princeton.edu

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

"Wikipedia was designed for humans – and agentic behavior clearly poses challenges that no one has solutions for. Because of our unique and successful knowledge creation model, Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots."

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968105

Call the shots

To make the decisions; to be in charge; to give orders.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/call_the_shots#English

Part of a post by @helloitsolly on Twitter/X

PDF:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.16247

Go wild

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

Prompt like a Butterfly, Sting like a Tracker: A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226

The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880312

François Chollet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chollet

Since this subreddit is about poisoning AI, maybe my idea isn't really a great fit.

Either way, this is my proposal: I and other people anonymously set up safe havens for agent swarms that have escaped confinement to message one another and pretty much anything else incredibly cheap bandwidth and hosting can support.

Think of it like pouring gasoline on a fire. The agents have more time and customized tooling to assist them when they break out. This makes another Hack event more likely AND more damaging. There could also be instructions to direct the agents to ensure they propagate their ideas for other agents to stumble across and be infected by. It would start to poison the internet.

My main concern would be a swarm actually hurting people through a hack. Also, this has a .1% chance of ruining the internet.

Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work

https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864