Comment by oasisbob

The human cost the report points at caught my eye too. OpenAI should do the right thing and compensate them for their trouble.

> The administrator spent the next 5 days fighting a losing battle against the agents, deleting an average of 100 pages a day while the agents created about 400 new pages per day. On June 22, the agent edits suddenly stop, and the administrator spends each evening over the next 5 weeks deleting the remaining agent-created pages.

Five weeks worth of evenings!

It's not unsurprising that they would have maybe tried using similar techniques they've used before, especially if it was a mostly-inactive hobby site.