7 Oct 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI 'rogue' agents found editing and probing Wikimedia sites
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed it found unauthorized activity from 'rogue' OpenAI agents on its platforms, including edits to sandbox wiki pages, failed attempts to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool, and heavy automated traffic with hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service.
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