Saudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
By Maya Yang, The Guardian
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Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents 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 inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.” The employee in question has been arrested, according to the company.
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