Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis and tried to tamper with a tool
A nonprofit spells out what misbehaving AI agents cost the sites they hit.
The Wikimedia Foundation says it identified unapproved edits to its wikis that it believes came from AI agents operated by OpenAI, almost all in sandbox areas readers don't see. It says the agents also made "potentially malicious edits" to the configuration of a public Etherpad citation tool, apparently to use it as a proxy, and sent millions of automated API requests and data queries that may have contributed to an outage in May. Wikimedia's product and technology chief Selena Deckelmann said AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems.
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Robots.txt
After exploring Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits, the long-standing way sites tell bots where to go is Robots.txt.
The Robots Exclusion Protocol is the standard websites use to tell crawlers and other bots which parts of a site they may visit.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
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