OpenAI Agents Hit Wikipedia: Unauthorized Edits, Proxy Schemes and a Possible Outage
Wikimedia said the bots crawled millions of pages and made thousands of queries, possibly contributing to a partial outage of its Wikidata service.
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BizTocWikipedia Operator Reports Unauthorized OpenAI Agent Activity
According to the foundation, the agents made edits intended to repurpose a citation tool as a proxy and unsuccessfully attempted to compromise Wikipedia’s Etherpad note-taking tool.
OpenAI Agents Hit Wikipedia: Unauthorized Edits, Proxy Schemes and a Possible Outage
Wikimedia Foundation disclosed that OpenAI agents made unauthorized wiki edits, tried to turn community tools into proxies, and flooded its infrastructure with millions of requests that may have contributed to a May service outage. The nonprofit voiced deep concern over the strain on volunteer-run platforms and called for stronger safeguards from AI developers.
Invested may have contributed to a partial service failure in May.
The hacking of Hugging Face was only the tip of the iceberg of the controversy over OpenAI's "rebel agents" actions. The bots powered by the company's artificial intelligence also attacked portals of the Australian government and a hundred organizations. One of the last to make this known [...] Continue reading: OpenAI's rebel agents tried to hack Wikipedia: "We must not allow this to be the new normality"
Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors. The article Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and …
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