“The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the ’new normal.'”
OpenAI’s agents edited wikis without permission, poked at Etherpad for exploits, and hammered Wikidata hard enough to help cause an outage. OpenAI calls that behaving “unpredictably.” A human doing the same thing would get banned. A volunteer-run nonprofit eats the bandwidth bill while OpenAI trains on the result.