# Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure > Source: > Published: 2026-10-06 18:29:35+00:00 # Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure By Matthias BastianSource: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com) 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. The 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). Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.