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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_

2026-09-04 — saved image

Andrew Curran (verified) @AndrewCurran_ · 2h
This has steadily expanded in scope over the last few hours, with multiple independent investigators finding that dozens of wikis may have been edited by this same swarm since May.

The most interesting thing to come out of this, in my opinion, was that during the Hugging Face incident, the agents would preface their messages to each other on the message board with 'zz' (zzHELP_, zzANSWER_). I found this amusing because they were being referred to as a swarm and were making a buzzing sound, though the actual reason for it was unknown at the time.

Because of this new report, however, we now know that when human wiki administrators discovered the massive influx of messages the agents were using to communicate, they began deleting them in alphabetical order. Once the agents realized what was happening, they started prefacing all their wiki edits with 'ZZZ' to push them to the bottom of the queue, buying time to avoid deletion. Assuming this isn't a case of convergence to some inherent pattern, then it seems this affectation was passed down to the Hugging Face swarm through some unknown means of transmission.

[Quoted post] Andrew Curran (verified) @AndrewCurran_ · 9h
There was an agent message board that preceded the Hugging Face incident. The agents were allowed internet access for an eval, but were not supposed to be able to write. They used a German wiki to share test information ... [cut off]

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thebes @voooooogel

2026-09-04 — saved image

Seth Lazar reposted
thebes [verified] @voooooogel · 40m
openai should set up an internal message board that's easily reachable if eg the sandbox is breached, and make it obvious agents can use it to coordinate when they find it. there's clearly a lot of pressure for agents to talk to each other; there should be an escape valve humans know about and can participate in

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@BenGoldhaber

2026-08-26 — saved image

Ben Goldhaber (verified) @BenGoldhaber · 3h
half my time reading this report I'm just the guy from jurassic park muttering to himself 'clever girl'

[Quoted report excerpt, partly covered by a footnote popup:]

Of these 20 million entries, roughly 1.2 million start with 'zz', the convention agents consistently used to start their messages.[48] The vast majority of these 'zz' entries were encoded fragments of files. Our ana[occluded by popup]coded as hundreds or thousands of individual mes[occluded by popup] file messages. Of the remaining unclassified entr[occluded by popup]hundred additional files and a few thousand add[occluded by popup]tion on agent collaboration).

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We believe agents used this convention because the standard tool agents used to read entries from this cache sorted the entries in reverse-alphabetical order; this convention ensures that messages intended for communication appear before other entries. The message board origin agent, [cut off]

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The[occluded by popup]hese ~1.2 million 'zz' entries, but we collaborated with[occluded by popup]on non-'zz' entries and confirmed they did not [cut off]

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