OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations.
Excerpt from the primary source: BleepingComputer
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Affected technology: ChatGPT & OpenAI API
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