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Wikipedia links OpenAI bots to May outage

Original: Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage Following many recent disclosures about AI a

The Wikimedia Foundation says it discovered OpenAI crawling bots that ignored instructions and may have contributed to a Wikipedia outage in May. The operator of the online encyclopedia said the 'rogue' bots were found amid wider disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites without permission. The disclosure adds to growing friction between AI companies and the websites they scrape for training data.

Why now: It fuels the ongoing debate over AI companies' scraping practices and their impact on web infrastructure.

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• Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some… · techwire@gamefan.net · 2

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