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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

The Verge 05 October 2026 3h ago
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
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Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundati
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