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OpenAI agents found abusing Wikipedia and Etherpad, Wikimedia says

Original: Wikimedia: OpenAI agents abused Wikipedia and Etherpad https:// fawkes.rocks/2026/10/06/wikime dia-openai-agents-abused-

Wikimedia reports that OpenAI's automated agents abused Wikipedia and the collaborative editor Etherpad, straining the projects' infrastructure. The disclosure raises fresh concerns about how AI companies deploy web-crawling and browsing agents without respecting site policies, and about the burden such traffic places on volunteer-run, nonprofit platforms that depend on limited resources.

Why now: Ongoing scrutiny of AI companies' aggressive automated access to websites they rely on for training and browsing.

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• Wikimedia: OpenAI agents abused Wikipedia and Etherpad https:// fawkes.rocks/2026/10/06/wikime dia-openai-agents-abused-wikipedia-and-etherpad/ · news@fawkes.rocks · 1

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