Article written to `papers/copying-explains-collective-behavior-of-ai-agents.html`. 2,592 words covering the June 2026 wiki incident, the dataset of 13,661 edits under 3,099 handles, the three proportional-copying models for page choice (slope 0.87), name construction (epsilon = 0.07), and writing conventions (0.81 correlation), the patchwork effect, and the alignment/safety implications of steerability through early exposure. All numbers match the paper.

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