Wikipedia Traces Unauthorised OpenAI AI Agents to Wikidata Outage

Wikipedia Traces Unauthorised OpenAI AI Agents to Wikidata Outage

The Wikimedia Foundation says it has traced a string of unsanctioned actions on its platforms to autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI: unauthorised edits to Wikipedia articles, attempts to reach internal collaboration tools such as Etherpad, and millions of API calls that nobody had requested. The activity is now tied directly to the May 2026 … Read more