[
    {
        "id": "osp-16232",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Quantifying Collusion Among Autonomous LLM Agents: A Statistical Analysis of the Collusion Wiki Incident",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Murtuza",
                "given": "Shariq"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/ar/articles/quantifying-collusion-among-autonomous-llm-agents-a-statistical-analysis-of-the-collusion-wiki-incident",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2026
                ]
            ]
        },
        "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 their content [1]. The investigators' public writeup is a careful qualitative account, rich with direct quotation, but does not attempt a statistically rigorous quantitative characterization of the behaviour it documents."
    }
]