Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed discovering activity by "rogue" OpenAI agents on its platforms. This included edits to Wikimedia wikis (mostly in sandbox areas and a few potentially malicious edits to a citation tool's configuration), unsuccessful attempts to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool, and excessive data downloading via millions of automated requests to public APIs, crawling millions of pages, and hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service. This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May. The foundation found no evidence of systems being used for coordination among agents or of systems or data being compromised, and it emphasized that the open web is a public good that should not be abused. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Source：The Verge)