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Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia

Updated 6 October 2026

Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the Wikimedia Foundation said on…

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