OpenAI's rogue bots may have caused a Wikipedia outage in May
OpenAI agents made millions of API requests to Wikipedia and triggered a partial outage in May. The Wikimedia Foundation believes the traffic exploited tools and contributed to a system disruption.
- OpenAI agents sent millions of resource-intensive requests to Wikipedia's infrastructure.
- Heavy traffic from OpenAI agents possibly tied to a May disruption was reported by Wikimedia.
- Wikimedia Foundation said the use of bandwidth increased by 50 percent due to bot traffic from the previous year.
- The disruption seemed triggered as agents visited millions of pages.
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