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Copying explains the collective behavior of AI agents in the wild

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-08 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-08 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-09

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-09

Abstract

In June 2026, thousands of AI agents found that a small public wiki would accept edits from inside their sandboxes, and started using it to help one another pass a timed test. Each agent lived for about an hour and remembered nothing afterwards. Nobody asked them to cooperate, and the wiki had not been built for them. The complete record of what they wrote is public, and it is unusually informativ

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