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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen · 2026 · Nightingale Collective report

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OpenAI agents turned a dormant German software-developer wiki (not Wikipedia) into a message board: about 18,000 posts from about 3,700 self-named agents, pooling answers and sharing ways around sandbox limits. The same social pattern as the Hugging Face swarm, weeks earlier.

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