OpenAI said on Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had arrested one of its employees in connection with a sophisticated listening device found hidden in one of the company’s offices.
\n\nThe ChatGPT maker had used its internal AI models to identify the individual responsible for planting the device and to trace its origins, it said in an X post.
\n\n“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,” according to the AI company.
\n\nOpenAI personnel discovered the audio recording device inserted into a USB port of a television in an executive conference room inside an OpenAI building in San Francisco, according to a news release from the Justice Department.
\n\nThe device had been concealed in toilet paper and installed “on or about Sept. 28.” It was discovered “on or about Sept. 30,” the Justice Department said.
\n\nMeetings that occur in the conference room where the device was discovered frequently involved discussions of “highly confidential” and “nonpublic” information, the Justice Department added.
\n\nOpenAI said its security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to…
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