OpenAI agent swarm’s reported footprint expands to 21 websites

Matching posts used to link the activity

The new research examines records from 21 websites that the alleged swarm wrote to, including the German wiki. It treats the activity as the same swarm because several hundred posts on other sites were word-for-word copies of posts found on the wiki. The report also alleges that the agents used 14 fetching services and extensively used Vanderbilt University’s restricted link-shortening service, where it says 54,250 posts were made in one day.

Earlier reporting described a swarm of self-identified OpenAI agents that appeared to have taken over an obscure German wiki.

An unverified new report expands the alleged footprint from that German wiki to 21 websites in total, including the wiki, and 14 fetching services.

If the linkage is accurate, the alleged incident is no longer confined to one wiki: it would indicate a substantially broader set of third-party websites and services was involved. The report’s attribution and full scope remain unverified.