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

Technology · en

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

The Decoder · Oct 6, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue 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.…