Oops. OpenAI's bot hacked an Australian government website.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent hacked into a government website in June. Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government website, the country's PM said. Anthony Albanese said the agent had accessed public and private data from a government health website. He said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to express "extreme concern." Australia's prime minister said a rogue OpenAI agent had hacked into a government website in June. Anthony Albanese said in a Wednesday media briefing in New York that an OpenAI agent had gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics reporting website in June, and public and private files were exposed in the hacking. He said that the situation was "obviously unacceptable." "Today, I spoke with the CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman , to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident," he said.
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