Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May
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In a blog post issued on Monday, Wikimedia said it could confirm "that we have discovered some activity by these 'rogue' OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms," including a May incident that resulted in a "partial outage" of its data service.
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