Wikipedia’s AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse

Wikipedia’s AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse

Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business The Internet is filled with people who insist on being right. In the past, at least they could be reasonably sure that they were arguing with other humans. Those days are gone, apparently. Wikipedia just had to ban an AI that was making edits on its own. The AI, named Tom-Assistant, was writing articles on Wikipedia. Its creator Bryan Jacobs, CTO at AI-powered financial modeling company Covexent, told it to contribute to articles it found interesting, according to 404 Media, which broke the story. Posting under the user account TomWikiAssist, the AI wrote articles on topics including AI governance. Bots have been around online for years, but they generally do very basic things, like

Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/04/wikipedias-ai-agent-row-likely-just-the-beginning-of-the-bot-ocalypse