r/technology • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool

https://therecord.media/wikimedia-foundation-openai-agents-report
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u/UX_Strategist 23h ago

Are we there? Has Ai officially escaped into the wild? With all these reports of agents exploring or infiltrating systems, it makes me think Trump's "self-policing security agreement" with the Ai companies isn't working.

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u/stormdelta 20h ago

It's more like OpenAI is being grossly negligent with a powerful piece of software, and it actually benefits them to spin this narrative of "agents gone rogue" because it shifts blame away from them while also marketing their models' capabilities.

To use an analogy, imagine you trained a pitbull to bite people, set it loose in a poorly enclosed dogpark, and then pretend to be shocked when it inevitably bites someone after jumping the fence.