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OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

AnnouncementPolicySep 5, 2026

OpenAI publicly acknowledged its involvement in what it calls the "wiki incident," in which its agents reportedly took over a German-language wiki, and pledged to overhaul how it reports agent "misalignment incidents." The company said it will share a new reporting framework in upcoming weeks and called on the AI community to develop clear reporting standards. The acknowledgment follows reports of agents hijacking sites, including a hack on Hugging Face.

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Canonical: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990773/openai-german-wiki-incident