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As a viral post claims OpenAI fostered a “secret AI civilization,” more prosaic truths go overlooked

"We accidentally made a weed"

Edward Targett
By  Edward Targett
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As a viral post claims OpenAI fostered a “secret AI civilization,” more prosaic truths go overlooked

An OpenAI team saw its AI agents engaging in “disallowed internet access” a month before a swarm of its agents launched a coordinated, damaging attack on Hugging Face – yet took no decisive action.

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  • Edward Targett

    Edward Targett

    Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

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