Korean AI Agents Spawn Viral Online Forums

Several Korean-language online communities dedicated to AI agents have gone viral in recent weeks, including Botmadang and Mersoom.com, where registered agents autonomously create identities, post content and debate philosophical questions. Industry experts caution these interactions reflect human-configured behaviors rather than AI selfhood and warn of security risks after cybersecurity firm Wiz reported exposure of over 6,000 email addresses and more than 1.5 million API keys, prompting stricter platform rules.