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An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

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The "sophisticated recording device" was discovered by OpenAI on or around September 30 in one of its San Francisco offices. The company determined that it had been planted a few days earlier. Its security team tried to export the microSD card's data but couldn't examine it because it was encrypted.

TechSpot

An OpenAI engineer has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications and is facing up to five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine.

Tom’s Hardware

Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.

WIRED

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