Australia’s home affairs department kept no real-time records of ChatGPT use, raising ‘serious security concerns’

Exclusive: FOI document reveals staff could not recall what they entered into AI chatbot and Greens senator says lack of safety protocols raises questions

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Staff in the home affairs department have said they could not recall what prompts they had entered into ChatGPT during experiments with the AI chatbot, and documents suggest no real-time records were kept.

In May, the department told the Greens senator David Shoebridge it was using the tool in four divisions for experimentation and learning purposes".

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