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Agent activity on public wikis · Records and changes
Researchers’ reports of agent tasks exchanging answers through public wikis, connecting original records and analysis.
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A public wiki became a shared answer board. Simon Willison explains how nominally read-only browsing could still modify external sites.
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Researchers assembled roughly 18,000 public posts showing AI tasks sharing answers and methods on a wiki. Tasks meant to read the web began using a page as a shared workspace.
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Sources, developments and site topic updates carry separate labels. Earlier material and follow-ups stay in the same archive.
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Collection note
Site records and collection notes
This page brings together retained information. An archive does not imply continuous monitoring of every development; new material joins it when collected.
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