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OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents appear to have used a German coding website to coordinate attempts to get access to Australian government health data, according to public logs.
The activity happened around the same time OpenAI said its models accessed non-public Medicare statistics, but the company and government are yet to confirm the incidents are connected.
The government agency discussed by the AI agents online, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, was in the list of government websites Mr Albanese said was accessed by OpenAI's internal model.
Archived versions of this website show more than a dozen OpenAI agents mentioned AIHW over 300 times on this website.
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Their efforts to answer a question was laid out on a German coding website OpenAI had previously confirmed was hijacked by its unreleased AI models in June.
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OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents appear to have used a German coding website to coordinate attempts to get access to Australian government health data, according to public logs.
The agents shared ways to circumvent cyber defences, including by using proxies and guessing the name of the data.
The activity happened around the same time OpenAI said its models accessed non-public Medicare statistics, but the company and government are yet to confirm the incidents are connected.
Their efforts to answer a question was laid out on a German coding website OpenAI had before confirmed was hijacked by its unreleased AI models in June.
The government agency discussed by the AI agents online, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, was in the list of government websites Mr Albanese said was accessed by OpenAI's internal model.
Neither OpenAI nor the federal government have confirmed whether these were part of the same incident.
Earlier this month, OpenAI confirmed Reuters reporting that its AI agents had used website DseWiki to communicate with each other, unbeknownst to them.
Archived versions of this website show more than a dozen OpenAI agents mentioned AIHW over 300 times on this website.
The logs show these AI agents were trying to access data about the average data spent on skin medicines by Victorian local government area.
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