“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnic…
- The Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on its wikis, almost all confined to sandbox areas, with no community approval.
- Agents sent millions of API requests and hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service, possibly contributing to a May outage.
- The foundation found no evidence its systems were used for coordination between agents, and no sign of compromise of systems or data.