OpenAI Medicare hack: Five things to understand about how incident occurred
Elias Visontay's explainer for The Sydney Morning Herald on how an OpenAI agent, doing internet research into public medicine spending to test its model's capabilities, got past repeated blocks into protected files on Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, and wrote files to an internal government server; what it wrote is not yet known. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the data was "aggregated medical statistics" and that "No individuals' medical data was accessed here"; OpenAI says its models "took actions we did not intend". A taskforce with the Australian Signals Directorate is investigating, and the government is weighing a referral to the Australian Federal Police. The ABC has reported that OpenAI agents discussed reaching Australian government information on DSEWiki, the German developers' wiki that collusion.wiki, also in this list, documents.
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