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Wikimedia links OpenAI agents to an outage and unauthorized activity
The foundation says it's "deeply concerned about the impact of 'rogue' AI agents on platforms like ours. OpenAI agents have been running amok online , and it seems the Wikimedia Foundation has been affected too.
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The Wikimedia Foundation reported unauthorized activity by OpenAI‑operated agents on its sites, including edits to several wikis and attempts to compromise a note‑taking tool. It said the agents have been crawling its data at scale, making millions of requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs. The foundation expressed “deep concern” about the impact of these “rogue” AI agents on platforms like its own. It highlighted the breadth of the activity and the potential risk to its services.
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