Volunteer internet sleuths hunting down rogue AI agents

October 2, 2026

Washington Post: “I should never be the one reporting any of this to anybody,” said Kenneth Russell DeGraff, a 42-year-old software engineer based in Los Angeles who uncovered instances of agents abusing link-shortening services run by universities. “It is wild that I am finding new and novel things, not as an employee of some, you know, federal agency run by experts.”…