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Wikimedia Foundation confirms 'rogue' OpenAI agents on its platforms

simonwillison.net · 2026-10-07

The Wikimedia Foundation said its investigation found unauthorized edits, exploitation attempts against a note-taking tool, and heavy traffic from OpenAI-operated agents, adding to a string of third-party harm reports.

“They found evidence of agents editing sandbox pages, trying to use pieces of infrastructure such as Etherpad to help proxy content from elsewhere, and saw widespread crawling and "hundreds of thousands of data queries" to their Wikidata Query Service.”

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