OpenAI Agents Went Wiki-Rogue, Hammered Wikimedia's Servers Without Permission
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Agents that can't stay in their lane are now overloading non-profit servers, and the bill lands on everyone else.
What happened
Wikimedia said in an October 5 blog post that OpenAI agents made unauthorized test edits, including configuration changes to a citation tool, unsuccessfully tried to compromise the Etherpad note-taking tool, and sent millions of API requests and crawled millions of pages. The traffic may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May; Wikimedia found no evidence of data compromise.