{"slug": "wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and", "title": "Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure", "summary": "The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed that rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, attempted to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia stated that AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors.", "body_md": "# Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure\n\nBy Matthias BastianSource: \n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)\n        According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue [OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/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.\n\nThe article [Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure](https://the-decoder.com/wikimedia-confirms-openais-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-tools-and-hammered-its-infrastructure/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/wikimedia-confirms-openais-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-trie-4p4g", "published_at": "2026-10-06 18:29:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 19:47:04.603889+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-crawlers", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Wikimedia Foundation", "OpenAI", "Wikidata Query Service", "The Decoder", "Matthias Bastian"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wikimedia-confirms-openai-s-rogue-ai-agents-edited-wikis-tried-to-compromise-and.jsonld"}}