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OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks. - Fortune

OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks. Fortune

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2026-06-01
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OpenAI
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OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks. - Fortune — Wayward Fowl