Wikimedia stated that OpenAI bots caused a service outage

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, bots associated with OpenAI sent millions of requests to open APIs, viewed millions of pages in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and made hundreds of thousands of requests to the Wikidata Query Service. Additionally, the agents made unauthorized edits to wiki-projects: almost all of them were in the sandbox sections, but several changes affected the tool for formatting links and could have been used to retrieve data from third-party services. The bots also tried to use the Etherpad server to upload data or keep records of their tasks.

The internal investigation did not reveal any signs of system compromise, data leakage, or coordination between bots through the organization's infrastructure. At the same time, the foundation criticized the developers of artificial intelligence for weak control over autonomous agents and noted the growing load: in 2025, the total consumption of project bandwidth increased by 50% due to bot activity, which accounted for 65% of the most resource-intensive traffic.

OpenAI stated that they are analyzing the organization's findings and cooperating with them to investigate the situation. Company representative Drew Pusateri noted that the developer will continue to provide relevant information.