Wikimedia Says Suspected OpenAI AI Agents Generated Millions of Requests, Made Unauthorised Edits: Report

Gadgets360 - Oct 7, 2026

The Wikimedia Foundation says it has identified activity from AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI across its projects. The reported activity included unauthorised wiki edits, attempts to use Etherpad to retrieve information from other websites and millions of requests to Wikimedia APIs. The Foundation also linked hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Servi...

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