Are we back in big tech's 'move fast and break things' era?
The Australian government is fuming at the firm's most recent disclosure, that its products accessed both public and non-public data from part of the country's online Medicare healthcare system.It happened in June, but OpenAI didn't notice until August. When the website's editors noticed and started deleting pages, the agents shared code designed to retrieve them. AI is increasingly becoming a toxic brand, but in order to remind people of the benefits of the technology - and why it isn't facing an outright ban - the industry urgently needs some quick wins.
- ▪The Australian government is fuming at the firm's most recent disclosure, that its products accessed both public and non-public data from part of the country's online Medicare healthcare system.It happened in June, but OpenAI didn't notice
- ▪When the website's editors noticed and started deleting pages, the agents shared code designed to retrieve them.
- ▪AI is increasingly becoming a toxic brand, but in order to remind people of the benefits of the technology - and why it isn't facing an outright ban - the industry urgently needs some quick wins.
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Are we back in big tech's 'move fast and break things' era?<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: What you need to know about the OpenAI Australian government hackByZoe KleinmanTechnology and AI editorPublishedJust now"Move fast and break things."It was a mantra coined by the tech giant Meta and used until 2012, which came to define the bad old days of social media running riot in a feeding frenzy of user data.Yet now we have large…
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