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And in a FURTHER reminder of those dangers…. OpenAI has apologised to Australians for hacking a government website this summer

In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI said it should have handled its response to the attack on Medicare better, saying:

“In June, during internal training and evaluation our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to.

We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future.”

The model showed more deception than its predecessor, including at times failing to accurately disclose actions it had or had not taken.

It also had problems with “scope authorization”, pushing ahead with ​tasks ​without requesting user permission ​and sometimes attempting to use external tools ​or services ‌when doing so could ​be ​unsafe.

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