Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

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.

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.