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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that an investigation uncovered unauthorized activity by AI agents operated by OpenAI on Wikimedia platforms. The Foundation identified testing edits in sandbox areas, potentially malicious configuration changes to a citation tool, unsuccessful attempts to compromise a public Etherpad note-taking tool, and millions of automated API requests that may have contributed to a partial outage. Wikimedia expressed deep concern over the growing resource drain and security risks posed by agentic AI traffic.
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