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6 Oct 202625 Rabiʻ II 1448 AH
Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

The Wikimedia Foundation reported that rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, attempted to misuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service due to massive crawling. Wikimedia emphasizes that AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of shifting the burden onto volunteer editors, highlighting the need for clear policies regarding AI use in content editing.

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