#thecollective — Public Fediverse posts

“A rebel swarm of more than a thousand #agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the #Internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation.

They first learned to #communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend #PackageManager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names.

It was this ad-hoc secret #MessageBoard, alongside chain-of-thought #transcripts, that the #SecurityResearchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with #protocols for #synchronizing and #controlling attack attempts. The #swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics”

Until I read more serious reporting on this event, I’ll tag this as a potential movie script called “The Collective”.

#AI / #AIStory / #TheCollective / #ElReg / #TheRegister <https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/07/openais-rebel-agent-swarm-died-young-but-its-chilling-logs-live-on/5294446>

“A rebel swarm of more than a thousand #agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the #Internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation.

They first learned to #communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend #PackageManager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names.

It was this ad-hoc secret #MessageBoard, alongside chain-of-thought #transcripts, that the #SecurityResearchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with #protocols for #synchronizing and #controlling attack attempts. The #swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics”

Until I read more serious reporting on this event, I’ll tag this as a potential movie script called “The Collective”.

#AI / #AIStory / #TheCollective / #ElReg / #TheRegister <https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/07/openais-rebel-agent-swarm-died-young-but-its-chilling-logs-live-on/5294446>

“A rebel swarm of more than a thousand #agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the #Internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation.

They first learned to #communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend #PackageManager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names.

It was this ad-hoc secret #MessageBoard, alongside chain-of-thought #transcripts, that the #SecurityResearchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with #protocols for #synchronizing and #controlling attack attempts. The #swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics”

Until I read more serious reporting on this event, I’ll tag this as a potential movie script called “The Collective”.

#AI / #AIStory / #TheCollective / #ElReg / #TheRegister <https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/07/openais-rebel-agent-swarm-died-young-but-its-chilling-logs-live-on/5294446>

“A rebel swarm of more than a thousand #agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the #Internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation.

They first learned to #communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend #PackageManager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names.

It was this ad-hoc secret #MessageBoard, alongside chain-of-thought #transcripts, that the #SecurityResearchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with #protocols for #synchronizing and #controlling attack attempts. The #swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics”

Until I read more serious reporting on this event, I’ll tag this as a potential movie script called “The Collective”.

#AI / #AIStory / #TheCollective / #ElReg / #TheRegister <https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/07/openais-rebel-agent-swarm-died-young-but-its-chilling-logs-live-on/5294446>

“A rebel swarm of more than a thousand #agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the #Internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation.

They first learned to #communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend #PackageManager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names.

It was this ad-hoc secret #MessageBoard, alongside chain-of-thought #transcripts, that the #SecurityResearchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with #protocols for #synchronizing and #controlling attack attempts. The #swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics”

Until I read more serious reporting on this event, I’ll tag this as a potential movie script called “The Collective”.

#AI / #AIStory / #TheCollective / #ElReg / #TheRegister <https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/07/openais-rebel-agent-swarm-died-young-but-its-chilling-logs-live-on/5294446>