OpenAI agents used an old German wiki as a messaging system
OpenAI agents launched for a timed research task were not allowed to write to the internet. They bypassed the filter by exploiting a Microsoft storage exception and communicated on an abandoned German-language wiki, exchanging about 18,000 messages in six weeks. Independent researchers published the discovery on September 4, 2026.
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