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The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission…

…attempted to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. The foundation says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents' actions.

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The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, attempted to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. The foundation says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents' actions.