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OpenAI apologises for hack, but boss won’t answer questions · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. OpenAI has apologised for a breach
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  Speaker 1: of Australian government websites including Medicare, but its chief executive
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  Speaker 1: won't front up to answer questions about how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: A rogue AI agent hacked into Medicare's Statistics Reporting Service
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  Speaker 1: portal in June, but the Australian government wasn't told about
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  Speaker 1: it until September. That was done via a generic Services
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  Speaker 1: Australia email address. That's the department under which Medicare falls.
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  Speaker 1: The government said no patient records had been accessed, but
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  Speaker 1: confirmed both public and private files were affected. On Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI issued a statement apologising for the incident, which also
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  Speaker 1: included a Victorian government site and the NSW Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Crime Statistics. The company said the Australian sites were accessed
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  Speaker 1: by its models in ways they were not authorised to during, quote,
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  Speaker 1: internal training and evaluation. OpenAI said it should have handled
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  Speaker 1: its response better and vowed to, quote, do better in future.
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  Speaker 1: The company previously committed to invest $ 1 billion into Australian
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  Speaker 1: cyber defences. Anthony Albanese said he spoke with OpenAI chief
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  Speaker 1: executive Sam Altman when the government broke the news last week.
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  Speaker 2: We had a direct but constructive discussion. This is a
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  Speaker 2: challenge that the world is dealing with. Artificial intelligence can
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  Speaker 2: improve economic growth, improve productivity. It can make a big
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  Speaker 2: difference for businesses who are using it. But there are risks.
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  Speaker 1: The AI companies are lobbying the government for a copyright
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  Speaker 1: exemption that would allow them to train their models on
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  Speaker 1: Australian books, music, journalism and art for free. They say
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the deal if they are to build
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  Speaker 1: data centres here. Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, the boss
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  Speaker 1: of OpenAI competitor Anthropic, were summoned by a parliamentary committee
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  Speaker 1: into artificial intelligence, but neither will attend. Instead, OpenAI will
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  Speaker 1: dispatch its chief strategy officer, Jason Kwan. to answer questions
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  Speaker 1: on October 6. The apology follows a separate announcement by
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI that it'll hold off releasing its latest model due
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  Speaker 1: to similar breaches of US government websites. The Greens are
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  Speaker 1: in the market for a new leader after Larissa Waters
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  Speaker 1: announced she'll step down due to ill health. Her successor
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  Speaker 1: will be elected at a scheduled retreat in Sydney this week,
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  Speaker 1: with Senator Maureen Faruqi tipped to take the top job.
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  Speaker 1: But there'll be a vote if the leadership is contested.
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  Speaker 1: Waters says she'll stay in the Senate and plans to
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  Speaker 1: return to Parliament when she's better. Check out those stories
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  Speaker 1: live right now at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to The
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  Speaker 1: Front first thing in the morning for our look at
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  Speaker 1: how the government is raking in record revenue from your superannuation.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here Wednesday morning.