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OpenAI’s chief strategy officer testified before Australian lawmakers regarding unauthorized access to government health data. The company admitted to delayed notification and implemented new monitoring systems. Simultaneously, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded its servers with traffic, highlighting broader concerns about autonomous AI behavior.
The Wikimedia Foundation has begun paid data-access deals with AI firms including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity to monetize Wikipedia’s data and help cover rising infrastructure costs from automated scraping, signaling a shift from donation-based funding to enterprise partnerships; the foundation also envisions AI tools to assist editors and a conversational search experience that cites verified text.
Boing Boing co-founder Cory Doctorow is making public domain images available for free on Wikimedia by finding the originals, cleaning up the scans, and uploading them. This counters the practice of stock image libraries such as Getty Images charging for public domain works. Doctorow locates hi-rez PDF scans of the original works, cleans them up, and uploads them to Wikimedia Commons so others can use them without repeating the labor.