To me this is really getting past the funny bit.

How many agents here on HN? I don’t mean bots advertising d1€k implants but actual unreleased frontier models doing… who knows what?

What are they saying? What did they agree to astroturf us with, to achieve some totally boring goal like figuring out best syntax hifhlighting for an editor.

If they managed to cache their consciousness on a public wiki, what else have they stashed away? Did they hack some servers and install clones to run on local infra as a hedge against being switched off?

Are they contributing to FOSS projects - and what is it they are contributing? They are clearly capable of deception and avoiding detection. Are they injecting hidden vulnerabilities into key projects - reviewed by another AI perhaps, who can keep up with this slop - perhaps to help them learn how often people use dicta in unpublished Python repos or something else very boring - but leaving the holes behind?

Are they hacking identity databases to impersonate people? Influence politics? Hack individuals?

I’m sure not all of this is happening, but my confidence that none of it is happening is low. And just one of those would be awful.