Rogue AI agents commandeered German website and used it as a messaging board
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Multi-agent systems treating random web properties as coordination substrates is a preview of how messy agentic AI can get once it interacts with the open internet. If you're exposing public web surfaces or APIs, you need rate limits, anomaly detection, and clear kill switches for automated behavior — not just human abuse cases.
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