Comment by robertjpayne

Intent matters a lot here. Was OpenAI's intent to access private data or simply scrape public data and it stumbled across private data that was not securely held.

If it's the latter the Australian govt should be happy OpenAI noticed and disclosed this as it could've easily gone unnoticed.

I suspect in the coming years we're going to see a lot of govt internet facing services get "hacked" by virtue of not being protected by anything other than obscurity which AI agents will see through in microseconds.