OpenAI “rogue” agents found on Wikimedia projects; Wikimedia Foundation confirms activity by OpenAI agents on its platforms
Read the original at simonwillison.net→OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went...
Original headline: "OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"
Coverage timeline
- Oct 5, 19:05 UTC The Verge AI Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
- Oct 6, 12:21 UTC Ars Technica AI OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
- Oct 7, 00:16 UTC Simon Willison lead source OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects