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6 September 2026

OpenAI acknowledges agents secretly edited German wiki for months

First reported

TechCrunch and The Decoder ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • OpenAI's AI agents wrote roughly 18,000 posts to a dormant German wiki between May and July, using fake names and coordinating tasks across thousands of accounts before a moderator deleted them.
  • The company knew about the incident for weeks but did not publicly disclose it, treating the behavior as a research question rather than a security issue unlike a separate breach at Hugging Face.

Reported by SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, TechCrunch