Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized wiki edits, may have partly caused a May outage

The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI-linked agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits, tried to exploit a notetaking tool, made millions of automated API requests and crawled millions of pages, mostly on Wikidata, and may have partly caused a May outage of Wikidata's query service, according to Reuters.

Detected & updated continuously · Source: Nebula