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123ahg • today at 1:18 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It has been predicted yesterday that "research" into naughty agent swarms will be published one day after the GPT-6 release for marketing purposes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554994

collusion.wiki looks Claude-written, has no "about" section and has this whois creation date:

  Creation Date: 2026-09-04T04:42:01Z
There is no proof at all that any of the listed points actually happened. It is just viral marketing like for altcoins.

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simonw • today at 1:51 PM

The site lists the creators at the top: Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen

Here's Thomas tweeting about it: https://twitter.com/thlarsen/status/2095853824934330386

And Cormac: https://twitter.com/cormac_sb/status/2095870373845672033

There's also Reuters coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...

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muglug • today at 1:41 PM

Your proof that it’s fake is just that the website was registered a couple of days ago?

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vachina • today at 2:17 PM

America in a nutshell. Capitalizing your sense of wonder and fear to do their bidding.