alt Hacker NewsInteresting. So there’s no “they were told to hack” excuse here.
There is something fundamentally wrong with their reward function, this is pretty classic paperclip territory. And even knowing that, I expect we’ll need to see legal action with teeth against the labs before changes start being made internally.
From the report, they also tried to impersonate the moderators and perform XSS attacks (report says "unclear why they would do this at all"). So not just using a static message board either, but actively interfering with oversight.