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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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open ai hacked medicare Australia's statistics portal https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman then didn't tell the government.
In response the australian government has in the absolute strongest terms expressed that "this is very naughty" and "I am very dissapointed in you". The Australian government has also said that by way of apology they expect openai to continue doing whatever the fuck they want and they'll modify copyright laws to enable piracy when rich people do it.
Somebody wake me from this nightmare, I'm gonna fedpost
Seems like another case of “we asked an AI to get the answers for this task, so it hacked something to find said answers”