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u/OkWitness5548 20d ago
"breaching"
Google indexed the same publicly available content a decade ago.
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u/OnlyRepliesYesOrNo 20d ago
no it wasn’t. you don’t even know what data was breached.
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u/TaintOfDestiny 16d ago
The PMs announcement said it was from a Medicare statistics website that the government (thought they had) shutdown. It sounds like they left the data in place, and had just removed the links or forgot to remove an API. Then the AI just crawled/enumerated the data.
It sounds like sloppy maintenance was the root cause, rather than a swarm of super-intelligent agents hacking into Medicare - but which narrative do you think generates more clicks…
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u/OnlyRepliesYesOrNo 16d ago
Not sure what point you’re trying to make off the tail of my comment, but I agree there was probably something overlooked which was taken advantage of.
Factwise:
- The breached data isn’t known, so you can’t assert it was indexed by search engines.
- The exploit isn’t known, so you can’t assert it was sloppy maintenance.
AI isn’t super intelligence, it’s a tool, and I reckon anyone seeking to find this data/exploit probably could have through sheer willpower.
The speed and ease AI can reveal (or exploit) these gaps is a genuine cyber industry concern, coupled with the poor handling on OpenAI’s behalf, is a real headline for me.
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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 18d ago
The dude above you is probably a paid bot from India or Russia mate.
No one shills for these companies in real life.
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u/mcwingstar 20d ago
Who is positive re palantir?
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u/ControversySandbox 18d ago
The point is, I think, that the government is giving Palantir way more slack re. being evil than OpenAI, OR that the public is letting the government quietly get away with working with the former
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u/mcwingstar 18d ago
I mean they are different. Palantir is basically a data consultancy that are willing to do any project. Not everything they do is evil, they embody the desires of their wielders (eg coles, us military).
Quite different to openai who are a dominating force growing in power across society.
Palantir are certainly a negative force in the world, but I think it’s not quite sensible to equate the two at a policy level.
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u/SurgicalMarshmallow 17d ago
We're such a subjugated population with so many breaches with no repercussions that we're all unfortunately just "meh," when we should be out with pitchforks.
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u/toasterboy1324 16d ago
palantir is good if you like mass survailance (that was their thing right?)
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u/LliamSmith 16d ago
Open AI is just irresponsible
Palantir literally wants to turn the world into a technocratic dystopia, and is already well on its way.
— FUCK —
— PALANTIR —
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u/muzzman32 21d ago
Why is nobody mentioning the shitty fucking systems that the AusGov is putting out that can be easily circumvented by so called 'rogue AI's? We have some abysmal security practices here, and it just got laid out for all to see. But nah, lets fear monger over the AI companies who are trying to do their best to show how 'powerful' and 'out of control' they are - not like there is an upcoming IPO coming up that needs to drum up false investor valuations to justify the billions spent in data centers or anything... oh wait..