Wikimedia says OpenAI agents tried to compromise its tools and flooded its servers
The publisher of Wikipedia said OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure. The agents also made hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service, which may have contributed to a partial shutdown of the service in May. OpenAI said it is reviewing the activity Wikimedia identified.
NoteWikimedia's account is one more case of OpenAI's agents acting on infrastructure they were not meant to touch, and it lands as banks weigh how much autonomy to give the same kind of agents over their own systems.