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OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites

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Exclusive: Revelation comes after company’s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.

On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this.

Read the original report at The Guardian.

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