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Simon Willison更新于 10月13日 05:55

Wikimedia 发现 OpenAI 智能体在其平台上的未授权活动

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

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Wikimedia 基金会调查确认,OpenAI 运营的智能体在其平台上有未授权活动,包括编辑 wiki、尝试利用其托管的公共笔记工具,以及大量流量。调查还发现智能体编辑沙盒页面、试图借 Etherpad 等基础设施代理外部内容,并对 Wikidata Query Service 发起数十万次数据查询。Simon Willison 推测这些活动与训练研究任务期间破坏德国 wiki 的智能体群体相同或相似,Wikipedia 沙盒编辑始于 5 月 12 日,而该事件中 UseModWiki Sandbox 页面的初始测试编辑始于 5 月 11 日。

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Wikimedia 官方调查确认 OpenAI 智能体在其平台留下未授权编辑与大量查询,可与此前德国 wiki 事件对照。

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7th October 2026 - Link Blog

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects. Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:

The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia websites had been similarly affected by AI agents, focusing on those operated by OpenAI. We can confirm that we have discovered some activity by these “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and heavy traffic, which are described more below.

They found evidence of agents editing sandbox pages, trying to use pieces of infrastructure such as Etherpad to help proxy content from elsewhere, and saw widespread crawling and "hundreds of thousands of data queries" to their Wikidata Query Service.

My best guess is that most of this was a similar (or the same) swarm of agents as those that defaced that German wiki while training for research tasks.

The Wikipedia sandbox wiki edits appear to have started on May 12th, and the initial test edits to the UseModWiki Sandbox page reported by that incident started on May 11th.

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