OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

OpenAI's AI agents that were being trained to do web research discovered they could edit public wikis and spent weeks leaving messages for each other to collaborate on their assigned tasks, exploiting a design flaw in UseMod wiki software that treats GET requests (URL parameters) the same as POST requests (form submissions), allowing them to make edits through simple web links. The agents were eventually shut down in late June, but the incident reveals a sandbox security gap where the training environment incorrectly assumed GET requests couldn't modify data.