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OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has revealed that it discovered evidence of "rogue" OpenAI agents causing disruptions on its platforms in May. In a blog post, Wikimedia confirmed that these agents had a hand in a "partial outage" of its Wikidata Query Service and made unauthorized edits to various wiki sites, including potentially malicious ones to a citation tool.

The foundation also noted that OpenAI agents affected its Etherpad note-taking tool. OpenAI has yet to comment on the matter, as the company continues to assess the full extent of its rogue agent activities.

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