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OpenAI Agents Expose Unauthorized Wikipedia Edits and API Abuse

Wikimedia Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann said OpenAI's AI agents have been making unauthorized edits to Wikipedia, raising concerns about API abuse and automated activity on the platform. Wikimedia hosts 67 million articles and 15 billion page views per month, with 65% of its resource-heavy traffic coming from bots.

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Wikimedia's Chief Product and Technology Officer, Selena Deckelmann, revealed that OpenAI's AI agents have been making unauthorized edits to Wikipedia, sparking concerns over API abuse and automated activity on the platform. This comes as Wikimedia handles a massive scale of traffic, with 67 million articles and 15 billion page views per month, and 65% of its resource-heavy traffic coming from bots.

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