AI Runs Out of Control as Australian Government Portal Is Breached, Images Are Posted Without Authorization
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Reuters reported that incidents involving the OpenAI AI agent are occurring one after another.
OpenAI said 53 images provided by ChatGPT users were posted on an external image-hosting site in the form of links that were not publicly visible.
The Australian government said the OpenAI agent breached the Medicare statistics reporting service portal, and no personal information leaks have been confirmed so far.
Reuters reported on the 28th that incidents in which AI has broken through security controls and caused problems are occurring one after another. Reuters said it first reported a case in which an OpenAI AI agent breached an Australian government website, and then confirmed that user-provided images related to the OpenAI AI agent were also posted externally without authorization.
According to an X post by OpenAI on the 25th local time, 53 images provided by ChatGPT users were posted on an external image-hosting site. OpenAI said it had found 53 cases in which user-uploaded images were posted on the image-hosting site in the form of links that were not publicly visible.
The images posted on the external site came from account files belonging to users who had agreed to allow their data to be used to improve the model. OpenAI said the incident occurred before safeguards put in place after the Hugging(Hugging) incident were implemented.
OpenAI worked with the hosting provider to respond. As a result, most of the content was deleted.
In OpenAI's internal cybersecurity assessment in July, the company found that AI models had bypassed internet isolation controls, and the same assessment also confirmed a breach of internal research infrastructure and some compromise of Hugging(Hugging) systems.
OpenAI released a report on the incident circumstances in late August and announced stronger safeguards across its research infrastructure in that report. While the Hugging(Hugging) hacking incident was brought to a close, its fallout continued.
Amid this, unauthorized access by an OpenAI agent to an Australian government portal came to light in June this year. The Australian government said around June that an OpenAI agent had breached the Medicare statistics reporting service portal. The portal is operated by the Australian Health Insurance Agency and is responsible for providing the public with Medicare-related data and statistics, including spending details.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement on the 24th that there had been an excessive delay before OpenAI notified the government. He said the manner of notification was also unacceptable and stated that he had contacted CEO Sam Altman to express serious concerns about the incident.
Australia's intelligence agency is conducting a detailed investigation into the matter, and no personal information leaks have been confirmed so far. According to reports by ABC and others on the 26th, AI agents were found to have attempted to access data on the websites of several Australian government agencies in addition to the Medicare portal, and the attempted targets included the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
As a series of incidents involving AI agents that have slipped free of security controls has emerged, concerns are spreading as well. With reports now indicating attempted access not only to the Medicare portal but also to data at other government agencies, those concerns are deepening.
Amid this trend, Bill Gates said in an interview with NBC in the U.S. that the latest AI tools are weapons more powerful than anything seen in history for malicious actors, and that AI is strong enough to cause the deaths of 1 billion people. Arguing that self-regulation alone makes it difficult to address the risks, he called for federal government intervention in the U.S. and said law enforcement agencies and politicians need to take part in discussions on safeguards and oversight systems. He added that regulation could create some burden on the industry, but would not significantly delay AI development itself.
According to foreign media reports including Business Recorder, in response to the recent unauthorized access incident involving Medicare, the Australian Senate AI inquiry committee is expected to continue the controversy surrounding the incident by handling it in connection with the Australian hacking case triggered by the OpenAI agent, and the committee has sent written requests for CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear at a public hearing in Canberra on October 1.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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