Wikipedia's data is already free, so the agents went after the one thing that was not: a tool that would fetch URLs for them
2026-10-07AI
The Wikimedia Foundation has published what it found when it looked for rogue OpenAI agent activity on its projects. Most of it was harmless sandbox testing. The part that was not involved editing a citation tool's configuration, and trying to make a public note-taking service fetch data from other sites on the agents' behalf.