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The Wikimedia Foundation said Monday that agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried and failed to break into a public note-taking tool, and sent millions of requests that may have helped cause a May outage. Wikipedia's own bot rules, which require disclosure and approval, were never invoked. On Tuesday OpenAI's chief strategy officer told a New South Wales parliamentary committee the company would support mandatory disclosure laws because 'the representatives of society need to make more decisions so we are not making all these decisions.'

Continue the story on unscarcity.ai:

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