Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

AI agents gather information by making automated requests to websites, and Wikimedia says it traced activity from OpenAI agents on its platforms: test edits in wiki sandboxes, attempts to use its note-taking tool as a data proxy, and millions of API requests that the foundation says may have helped cause a partial outage in May. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings and has not confirmed any link to the outage.

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