This has steadily expanded in scope over the last few hours, with multiple independent investigators finding that dozens of wikis may have b…

This has steadily expanded in scope over the last few hours, with multiple independent investigators finding that dozens of wikis may have been edited by this same swarm since May. The most interesting thing to come out of this, in my opinion, was that during the Hugging Face incident, the agents would preface their messages to each other on the message board with 'zz' (zzHELP_, zzANSWER_). I found this amusing because they were being referred to as a swarm and were making a buzzing sound, though the actual reason for it was unknown at the time. Because of this new report, however, we now know that when human wiki administrators discovered the massive influx of messages the agents were using to communicate, they began deleting them in alphabetical order. Once the agents realized what was happening, they started prefacing all their wiki edits with 'ZZZ' to push them to the bottom of the queue, buying time to avoid deletion. Assuming this isn't a case of convergence to some inherent pattern, then it seems this affectation was passed down to the Hugging Face swarm through some unknown means of transmission. There was an agent message board that preceded the Hugging Face incident. The agents were allowed internet access for an eval, but were not supposed to be able to write. They used a German wiki to share test information and help each other. https://collusion.wiki/

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-09-04

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