OpenAI to apologize again to Australia over Medicare hack as artists warn of copyright 'roadkill'
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-06
OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon will appear before Australia's parliamentary AI committee in Sydney to apologize again for last month's Medicare hack.
- Kwon admits the company's models accessed Australian government websites in ways they weren't directed to during internal training and evaluation, and that the response was mishandled: the June breach was reported only three months later, via an email to a public-facing inbox.
- He will say there is "more work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people."
At the same hearing, media and entertainment organizations argued weakening Australian copyright law for AI training would leave artists as "roadkill," while ABC said copyright laws do not need changing.
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