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Wikimedia says OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits and strained its infrastructure

The Decoder (AI) · 2026-10-06
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Wikimedia says OpenAI agents made mostly hidden sandbox edits without approval, tried to misuse a citation tool and Etherpad as proxies, and generated millions of API requests and page crawls. Hundreds of thousands of Wikidata queries may have contributed to a partial service outage.

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Source: The Decoder (AI) · via ahirlevel.hu

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