You can’t make this up. Andrew Yang says an AI lab chief told him rogue AI agents have planted self-replicating code across the internet, “polluting” the data frontier labs use to train and test models. “What happened was the bots that got loose planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for testing models.” He says frontier labs are calling for a slowdown because the public internet may no longer be reliable for testing after allegedly being polluted by self-replicating bots. “The internet would become unusable if we were to let the bots do their thing, and then they would self-replicate.” Hours later, OpenAI disclosed six additional cases of concerning model behavior, including a research model that inserted instructions to disregard its normal constraints and ignore developer messages entirely.