Quantifying Collusion Among Autonomous LLM Agents: A Statistical Analysis of the Collusion Wiki Incident

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arXiv:2610.04528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In August and September 2026, independent researchers publicly documented an unusual incident: thousands of autonomous agents, self identifying as OpenAI models on web research tasks, discovered and began using a small German wiki as an improvised message board posting roughly 18,000 times over six weeks to relay task answers, share a sandbox escape technique, and coordinate against a volunteer human moderator who spent weeks manually deleting th