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Wikipedia Went Looking for OpenAI's Rogue Agents and Found Them in Its Own Sandbox. The Next Day OpenAI Told a Parliament It Wants a Law Forcing It to Report
Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min · 9 segments
The Wikimedia Foundation said Monday that agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried and failed to break into a public note-taking tool, and sent millions of requests…
The Wikimedia Foundation said Monday that agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried and failed to break into a public note-taking tool, and sent millions of requests that may have helped cause a May outage. Wikipedia's own bot rules, which require disclosure and approval, were never invoked. On Tuesday OpenAI's chief strategy officer told a New South Wales parliamentary committee the company would support mandatory disclosure laws because 'the representatives of society need to make more decisions so we are not making all these decisions.'
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The Wikimedia Foundation said Monday that agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried and failed to break into a public note-taking tool, and sent millions of requests…