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Another NSW government website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent (www.sbs.com.au)

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The NSW premier's department on Friday said it had been informed by OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, that one of its models accessed a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application containing historical information and data on fires in NSW.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

A lot of these sound less like "hacks" and more like "government failing basic security and being informed of it"

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[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Eh, and (some at least) are sounding like "We told the LLM to collate data on X but then iT wEnT RoOugGeEE and collated data on Y instead!!1! Contact the PM! Contact ASIO! Contact ASD!"

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