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"Excessive data downloading: Agents[...]made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages[...]and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service" wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.