An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
Wired AI · rss · 2026-10-14
Wired reports that chatbot prompts reveal an OpenAI engineer's alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by senior executives. OpenAI referred the matter to the FBI and used its own models to analyze the device and identify the employee.
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