OpenAI found no evidence linking its AI agents to the Wikimedia glitch

WASHINGTON, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The OpenAI company told RIA Novosti that it has not yet found evidence of a connection between the activity of its AI agents and the May failure of the resources of the Wikimedia Foundation, operator of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation said it had identified unauthorized activity by OpenAI AI agents on its platforms. According to the foundation, agents sent hundreds of thousands of requests to Wikimedia resources, which allegedly could have led to the Wikidata outage in May.

As OpenAI told the agency, at the moment “the investigation has not established that the company’s activities affected the work of (Wikimedia - ed.) in May.”