Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
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TL;DR
- Wikimedia Foundation identified activity from "rogue" OpenAI agents on its wikis.
- Activity included unauthorized wiki edits, mostly in testing areas.
- Unsuccessful attempts were made to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool.
- Millions of automated API requests were made, potentially contributing to a May outage.
- No evidence of system compromise or coordination among agents was found.