Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval
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Unapproved AI agents editing Wikipedia and probing internal tools is a warning that autonomous crawlers are now a real operational risk for open platforms. If you run public or semi-open knowledge bases, you need bot identity, rate limiting, and explicit agent policies in place before this becomes a reliability or trust incident.
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