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A task force is investigating whether a criminal act occurred after the AI company breached government websites, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said on ABC News Breakfast.
Dr Chetan Arora said OpenAI took months to tell the Australian government about the incident and called for binding disclosure deadlines.
Sarah Hanson-Young told ABC News Breakfast the company took information it was not entitled to while executives lobbied for weaker copyright laws.
A woman in her fifties, recently widowed, met a man on a dating app who said he was a marine engineer working offshore.
A retired teacher was called about a $89 refund for a subscription he had cancelled years earlier.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the UN General Assembly that an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated an Australian government website, calling it unacceptable.
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CybersecurityAn OpenAI artificial intelligence agent hacked into a Medicare website on June 18 while researching public medicine spending, AAP reports.
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Different pitches, one mechanism: your account receives money that isn’t yours, and you are asked to move it on.
You keep a small cut. The bank keeps the whole record. When police read that record, the name on it is yours.
See what this means for you →Romance scamsMonths of messages, then one small favour: receive this money, and send it on. The romance was the recruitment.
See what this means for you →Remote-access “refund” scamsThe extra money on your screen came from another victim — or from your own savings, moved between your own accounts while you watched.
See what this means for you →“Quick cash” job scamsNo interview, no ABN, no office — just your bank details and $500 a week to “process payments” from home.
See what this means for you →Student scamsInternational students are targeted hardest, because a visa condition makes the threat of “trouble with the authorities” do all the work.
See what this means for you →Diaspora-targeted scamsFake embassy fines, fake immigration officers, fake remittance agents — the trust of a shared community, used as a tool.
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