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Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI's rogue AI agents were caught making malicious edits

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Rogue Slop: The Wikimedia Foundation recently accused OpenAI of abusing its hosting servers to "test" the malicious capabilities of its AI agents. The organization said companies like OpenAI should not be allowed to pretend they did nothing wrong and should instead be held accountable for the harmful actions of their AI systems.

Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that hosts Wikipedia and other major wiki-based collaboration projects, is once again clashing with AI companies over their alleged abuse of its servers. In particular, the foundation said that OpenAI was "caught" performing unauthorized operations through its supposedly autonomous, and most certainly "rogue," AI agents.

According to Wikimedia's Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) Selena Deckelmann, the organization discovered some rogue activitiesthat can be traced back to OpenAI's agents. Wikimedia's team launched an internal investigation after...

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