Wikimedia says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to May outage

The Wikimedia Foundation says it found activity by 'rogue' OpenAI agents on its platforms: wiki edits, attempts to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool, and millions of automated API requests. That traffic may have contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage in May. No evidence of compromised systems or data was found.

• OpenAI agents made test edits in wiki sandboxes and changed a citation tool's config
• Agents made unsuccessful attempts to use public Etherpad as a data-fetching proxy
• Millions of API requests and hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Service queries
• Foundation found no evidence of compromised systems or agent coordination