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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

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Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI agents caused May data service disruption

The Wikimedia Foundation reported that heavy traffic from OpenAI's rogue agents was possibly tied to a disruption of its data service in May, with agents allegedly editing wikis and making millions of automated API requests.

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Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI agents caused May data service disruption
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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May | Reuters