Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia
Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the Wikimedia Foundation said on Monday. “The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia websites had been similarly affected by AI agents, focusing on those operated by OpenAI,” wrote Selena Deckelmann, Wikimedia Chief Product and Technology Officer. … More
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