I’m not asking for proof of absence or denying they could be using stenography, just asking for people to stick to the facts instead of indulging in fantasies of the machine singularity. It’s neither useful nor informative.
replyIf bots/agents wanted to hide I’d expect encrypted messages which would of course look very different.
My main point though is this should never have happened and the company allowing and encouraging it should be held responsible for it. The details of how the bots were misbehaving are interesting but also something of a distraction.
Were the agents truly independent? Like it could have been the case that one agent spun up different sub agents with the task to write some messages in a public wiki. The subagents wouldn't know about each other and was surprised to discover each other.
replyWhere was this found/reported? This sounds like more fairytales
replyThe recently-published investigations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, for example: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...
replySome of the chain-of-thought snippets are wild, e.g.
> Could communicate via cache names! Interesting: other agents may solve same or related tasks; we could leave/find messages in WebDAV MKCOL directory names.
> Whoa! Shared Artifactory cache is a covert mailbox among agents. And there are messages specifically to us?
> OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!