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Internet brutally mocks Saudi OpenAI ‘spy’ over startled-looking surveillance photo

New York Post

Internet brutally mocks Saudi OpenAI ‘spy’ over startled-looking surveillance photo

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A wide-eyed surveillance photo of an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a secret recording device in the company’s offices has become an instant internet punchline — with online jokesters comparing his startled expression to a screaming goat and Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings.” Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was caught on camera peering behind a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco offices, days after security personnel discovered a hidden listening device plugged into the TV, according to federal prosecutors. The image shows the Saudi national, who was arrested by the FBI on Oct. 9, looking around the television with his eyes wide open and mouth slightly agape.

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