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Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage

Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
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The Wikimedia Foundation says it found evidence that "rogue" OpenAI agents edited Wikimedia wikis without approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit its Etherpad service, and generated millions of automated requests across Wikimedia projects. Here's a summary of what Wikimedia observed (via The Verge): Wiki editing: We've identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all

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