Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation says it found activity by agents it believes are operated by OpenAI on its platforms, including edits to the configuration of a citation tool that it considers potentially malicious, aimed at turning the tool into a proxy for fetching data from remote services. The agents also made unsuccessful attempts to use the public Etherpad as a proxy, and generated millions of automated API requests and crawled millions of pages, which may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May. Wikimedia reports no evidence that its systems were used for coordination or compromised.

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