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The Verge AI· Jay Peters·Indexed by this site · Originally published

Wikimedia 称 OpenAI 智能体在维基平台活动,或与 5 月部分中断有关

Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

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The Wikimedia Foundation said it has confirmed activity by OpenAI-operated agents on Wikimedia platforms, including edits to Wikimedia sites, unsuccessful attempts to exploit the Foundation-hosted Etherpad note tool, and heavy traffic that may have contributed to partial WQDS outages in May. The Foundation said the edits were not visible to ordinary readers, were almost all sandbox test edits, with a few edits targeting citation tool configurations, possibly intended to use the tool as a proxy to scrape remote data. The agents also sent millions of automated requests to the public API, scraped millions of pages (mainly from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and sent hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service. The Foundation said it found no evidence that systems were used for coordination between agents, nor evidence of compromise of systems or data, and stressed that this kind of behavior should not become the new normal for maintainers of the open web. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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