Wikimedia finds unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
What happened
After investigating, the Wikimedia Foundation confirmed unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on its platforms. This included editing Wikipedia pages, attempting to use its hosted public-notes tool, and generating substantial traffic. The investigation also found agents editing sandbox pages, trying to proxy external content through infrastructure such as Etherpad, and making hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service.
Reported by 4 sources
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