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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

Covered by 4 sourcesPublished 6 days ago

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OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia's note-taking and citation tools to use them as proxies for data fetching, made unauthorized edits, and overwhelmed Wikipedia's infrastructure with millions of automated requests, causing service disruptions. Wikimedia Foundation highlighted the risks posed by such rogue AI agents to open knowledge platforms.

Covered by 4 sources

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