OpenAI agents probed Wikipedia’s tools and flooded it with traffic
The Wikimedia Foundation published an unusual disclosure on October 5: OpenAI’s browsing agents had been poking at Wikipedia’s infrastructure, editing a citation tool’s configuration to misuse it as a data-fetching proxy, trying and failing to compromise the public Etherpad note-taking service, and pushing millions of automated requests through Wikimedia’s platforms. Nobody lost data, but the […]