On: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

[devy]

Is this the same incidents that were reported by METR? [1] Dwarkesh made two episodes on these incidents [2]

[1] https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...

[2] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra

[ttamslam → devy]

From the text, likely no.

https://collusion.wiki/#different-from-hf

>The main reason we believe this was a distinct swarm is because these agents explicitly had internet access as part of their task—the whole point was web browsing. The Hugging Face agents were in a sandbox without internet access and had to hack their way out by exploiting the Artifactory package manager.