India, Oct. 6 -- OpenAI's AI agents have come under scrutiny yet again after the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, found what it described as "rogue" agent activity across Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, including unauthorised edits, attempts to use its services as a proxy and millions of automated requests.

The Wikimedia Foundation said the activity was uncovered during an investigation into unusual agent behaviour and that it involved systems believed to be operated by OpenAI.

The activity included edits to Wikimedia wikis, most of which were made in sandbox environments and were not visible to readers. However, Wikimedia also identified changes to the configuration of a citation tool that it believes ...