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Thursday, October 8, 2026

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects...



Wikimedia found unauthorized activity from OpenAI agents. The agents edited sandbox pages, tried to misuse a public tool, and sent heavy traffic to Wikidata. The author suspects they may be linked to agents that defaced a German wiki.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/openai-rogue-agents-wikimedia/