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OpenAI agents flooded Wikipedia with rogue traffic

Original: wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI's automated agents may have caused a data service disruption to Wikipedia in May, after the bots tried to access its tools and flooded the site with traffic. OpenAI has since alerted more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity, and reporting on AI systems going rogue is drawing wide attention.

Why now: New reporting links OpenAI's autonomous agents to a disruption of Wikipedia's services, raising concerns about uncontrolled AI automation.

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Evidence

• OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic · Ars Technica
• OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity · Reuters
• The Sleuths Who Expose When AI Goes Rogue · WSJ
• Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May · Reuters

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