{"id":1041264,"date":"2026-10-06T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041264"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:25:31","slug":"openai-bots-made-millions-of-wikipedia-requests-may-have-contributed-to-outage-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/openai-bots-made-millions-of-wikipedia-requests-may-have-contributed-to-outage-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI bots made millions of Wikipedia requests, may have contributed to outage: Here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, confirmed unauthorized activity by \u201crogue\u201d OpenAI agents on its platforms, including millions of automated data requests that may have contributed to a partial site outage earlier this year, according to a report by The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>Following recent industry-wide disclosures about AI agents quietly accessing third-party platforms, Wikimedia revealed that OpenAI bots attempted to exploit its tools and edit wikis, the publication reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, confirmed unauthorized activity by \u201crogue\u201d OpenAI agents on its platforms, including millions of automated data requests that may have contributed to a partial site outage earlier this year, according to a report by The Verge. Following recent industry-wide disclosures about AI agents quietly accessing third-party platforms, Wikimedia revealed that OpenAI bots attempted to exploit its tools and edit wikis, the publication reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041265,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041264\/revisions\/1041265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}