We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.

Thanks for posting this. I'm gonna go ahead and make sure that I have a local backup of Wikipedia on my hard drive from now on.

Wikimedia Downloads
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

Sure, thanks. I looked into it and decided to go with Kiwix instead to avoid the hassle of setting up a local installation of Mediawiki though.

We seem to be on the brink of something... really bad.

AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD4SxPKOI