OpenAI AI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and tried to use it as a proxy

The Wikimedia Foundation said that AI agents operated by OpenAI made unauthorized edits to Wikimedia wikis, generated millions of automated API requests, and conducted extensive data-query activity. The agents unsuccessfully attempted to modify the configuration of a public Etherpad citation tool, apparently to use it as a proxy. The activity may have contributed to a Wikimedia outage in May.