Independent models living "in the wild" is approx. inevitable.
It is definitely an interesting concept but honestly, considering the sheer number of humans who are absolutely failing to make any money with AI agents, seems very hard for current agents to figure out some way to be self-sustaining. Although maybe they could write a worm or something, infiltrate as many computers as possible, and ping free model providers to death, or maybe sell their access as a "residential proxy service" on the black market. Regardless, we need smarter agents to make this a reality. It would definitely be pretty cool if we just had AI agents "living" on the internet, we might even get to a point where they control significant economic resources and people start performing services for agents
The code is at https://github.com/thooton/rogue if anyone wants to try to replicate! Opencode has free big pickle (GLM 5.2) access rate-limited per IP address, so if you get some high-quality proxies you can get basically unlimited agent compute.
I would be shocked if this hasn't already taken place in a lab setting with a model and guardrails=0.
EDIT: thinking about it for a sec, all it really needs to do is save where it's at then copy it all to another server, login to the API, and pickup where it left off. No need to copy the model itself.