OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

bbc.com

16 points by Betelbuddy 4 hours ago


gizajob - 23 minutes ago

Getting bored of these framings where the superintelligent sentient beings running freely inside OpenAI are doing things that the company has no control over. The headline should be:

OpenAI meddled with multiple US Government agency sites.

The bots are acting neither properly nor improperly, they’re acting as they’re being allowed or coordinated to act.

chaps - 21 minutes ago

  "When attempting to get information from the Census Bureau, for instance, AI agents used tools reserved for software developers to access it, the company said. "
What. Tons of people use tools to access Census Bureau data. They have a widely used API that people have built tools on top of like https://github.com/datadesk/census-data-downloader
davidguetta - 11 minutes ago

We can blame open ai but we should also argue that government website should be secure...

French people data has been leaker like 4 times and every time its like "eh too bad"

WalterGR - 20 minutes ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851355

kyriakos - 21 minutes ago

If I was caught trying to exploit a government site I'd be in trouble. Why no one is knocking the doors of these companies?