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OpenAI bots made millions of Wikipedia requests, may have contributed to outage: Here's what we know

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OpenAI bots made millions of Wikipedia requests, may have contributed to outage: Here's what we know

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The Wikimedia Foundation revealed that OpenAI bots attempted to exploit its tools and edit wikis. However, it clarified that no systems or data were compromised.

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