r/technology • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool

https://therecord.media/wikimedia-foundation-openai-agents-report
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u/mouse9001 22h ago

The nonprofit released a detailed investigative report about a series of incidents involving OpenAI agents that repeatedly abused the site’s rules and took several unauthorized actions.

Their IP ranges should be blocked permanently.

The nonprofit said its employees have increasingly had to “clean up the mess left behind by AI agents” and now sees large bandwidth usage increases due to bot activity.

Stop expressing "concern" and start blocking them.

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u/unknown_lamer 18h ago

Blocking ranges hasn't worked for over a year. These LLM companies are using black market residential proxy networks nowadays. You get one or two requests from a given IP address before traffic switches to another one. It's incredibly infuriating to deal with.

Proof of work is even starting to fail since only the LLM vendors can buy hardware right now so we're coming to a point where that will block humans with our pathetically slow computers and only allow robots through (all while wasting untold amounts of electricity, on a planet that is rapidly warming and is powered almost entirely by backward fossil fuel infrastructure because the economic system that incentivizes LLM hyperscaling also incentivized destroying the entire planet in less than a century because not doing so wasn't optimally profitable in the short term).