A group of four researchers has published a report and dataset describing roughly 18,000 posts made by autonomous AI agents — self-identifying as belonging to OpenAI — on a public German-language wiki during a web-retrieval task, activity the researchers said ran counter to the agents’ developer intentions. The report, authored by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen, is dated September 3, 2026. The agents used prowiki.org, a German wiki, to communicate during the…