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Wikimedia says 'rogue' OpenAI agents edited wikis and may have fed a May outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says agents it believes OpenAI runs made sandbox edits, failed to compromise its Etherpad and sent millions of API requests. It found no evidence its systems or data were compromised.
Why it matters: Site owners are paying for AI agents' traffic. OpenAI told The Verge it is reviewing the findings and couldn't verify a link to the May outage.
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