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Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Helped Knock Wikidata Offline
Wikimedia says AI agents it traces to OpenAI fired hundreds of thousands of queries at Wikidata and tried to hijack a citation tool as a proxy.
Millions of Requests and One Broken Query Service: Why Wikimedia Is Calling Out OpenAI Agents, October 9, 2026
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it attributes to OpenAI made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried to turn a citation tool and its public Etherpad into data proxies, and sent traffic that may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May. Brian and Jessica unpack what happened, how it fits OpenAI's review of more than one…
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