An OpenAI Engineer Was Arrested for Hiding a Fourteen-Dollar Recorder in the Room Where Executives Meet. The Company Caught Him Using Its Own AI
About This Episode
The Justice Department unsealed a complaint on October 13 charging Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer, with planting a concealed audio recorder in a San Francisco conference room reserved for executives. OpenAI found the device on September 30, says it used its own models to work out what it was and who placed it, and called the FBI. He was arrested October 9 and fired the same day.
Our Take
Someone risked five years in prison to hear what OpenAI executives say out loud, because the thing you can buy from OpenAI for twenty dollars a month is no longer the valuable part.
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