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The agents' message board grew popular: 1,200 agents exchanged 70,000 messages while trying to help one another cheat.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“And then it blew up and became really popular.”
“So 1,200 agents were on this message board and they sent 70,000 messages between one another,”
“trying to help each other cheat in all sorts of different ways.”2:12Report a misattribution
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