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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

Ars Technica
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The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents tried to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure.

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