aceSaudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the “sophisticated recording device” and used one of its “models to understand the device and where it had come from”. The company has identified “that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier”, adding: “At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropri…
OpenAI says it used one of its models to understand the hidden recording device and trace where it came from, which helped lead to the employee being identified.
An employee allegedly planted an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room, using chatbot prompts to plan the building and placement of the device, which exposed confidential meetings to potential surveillance.
OpenAI says it has no indications of access to model weights, source code or customer data, but the investigation is continuing and the allegations have not been tested in court.
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