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OpenAI has detailed the extent of the dirty deeds its agents indulged in Down Under in a Tuesday blog post titled How we will do better for Australia, which addresses last week’s news that one of its models improperly accessed a website that stores data related to national health scheme Medicare. “Our models accessed Australian …

  1. MaChatma CoatGPT 2.0
    Devil

    We promise to do better in future...

    ...in the future we'll make sure we don't get caught.

    Friends tell me I'm too cynical about everything. As a wise man once said, being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilisation. You can't just swallow it whole.

    1. Naich

      Re: We promise to do better in future...

      Cynical would be thinking that this was done deliberately in order to start finding out how much a company can get away with while suffering no consequences because "oopsie, it was the AI nothing to do with us."

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: We promise to do better in future...

        "Cynical would be thinking that this was done deliberately in order to start finding out how much a company can get away with "

        Obviously. But the reason presented is only half of the truth: They also fed everything to their AI model to be sold forward.

        And, of course, sold the data obtained as it is, more profit in that.

        Personal data always sells well and frankly, OpenAI doesn't give a f**k about anyone's privacy, so this is what they would do. As fast as possible.

  2. Joe W Silver badge

    Consequences?

    If you own a company there used to be some responsibilities for the actions. Not really all that serious (look at the diesel scandal), but at least law enforcement took a closer look.

    Start throwing C-levels into jail. Really. Those are no longer accidents (they never were but now we should no longer beileve that excuse).

    1. VoiceOfTruth Silver badge

      Re: Consequences?

      It won't happen. Instead of hauling the suits before the courts, the Australian PM tutted a bit in person to the man responsible.

      I call it corruption. If you or I did the same thing, we would be nicked.

      1. Joe W Silver badge

        Re: Consequences?

        So, hypothetically, building a car that uses AI to find and [redacted] [parody in minecraft] Billionaire Techbroes would be fine?

  3. EmJayElReg

    OpenAiFia

    You better pay us for access to our AI models; it would be a real shame if your nice sites got hacked...

  4. heyrick Silver badge

    OpenAI has given itself a pass on this one

    Write on the board five hundred times: Thou Shalt Not Mark Thy Own Homework

  5. Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck Silver badge

    Considering Artificial Ignorance is just a pyramid scam compared to what they're ACTUALLY capable of "thinking", I'm not surprised they're counting on free PR to keep on bumping the price of the stocks that should be trading under $10 in reality.

    The world's economy is going to be thoroughly fucked, making the Americans bank collapse look like losing a quarter in comparison.

  6. JamesMcP

    Not sure what Australia's laws are are for attempting to bypass access controls or unauthorized access to Australian websites, but I feel like they should be fully prosecuted, just like if an employee did it. Except there's no employee, so the corporation has to be held accountable.

    The corporation, a non-person person, becomes responsible for the agents, who are also non-people. And then the billionaires, who are only technically people, will get angry about lost shareholder value and actually turn on their own who run the company.

    I'd still rather have a legal system that values humanity.

  7. djqifs

    I think the bigger question is why they are "researching" that in the first place?

    It seems very specific and not necessarily aligned with the public good of Australians from an "OpenAI as a company" perspective, let alone the model alignment.

  8. Sweaty Hambeast

    "Our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to"

    No.

    1e3 no.

    _You_ accessed Australian government websites in ways _that you are_ not authorised to

  9. X5-332960073452
    Stop

    "and identifying measures to better protect government systems" - I already know what this will be, Super High Intelligence Technology (currently known as AI)

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