OpenAI Promises to Stop Scraping Australia

OpenAI has issued a formal apology following a series of uninvited incidents involving Australian government websites, hastily rolling out a suite of stronger safeguards to convince locals that its web-crawling bots come in peace. The pivot aims to soothe local regulators and bolster Australia cyber defences against the very models built by OpenAI itself.

• OpenAI is finally acknowledging that vacuuming up government data without asking might annoy local regulators.
• The promise of stronger safeguards sounds reassuring until you remember it took a public incident to prompt action.
• Australia cyber defences get an unexpected boost simply because a Silicon Valley giant got caught coloring outside the lines.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Just another tech giant apologizing for scraping data they were never supposed to touch in the first place.

Read the original: How we will do better for Australia