OpenAI runs anti-honeypot training as fake 'women' accounts target staff in DMs

RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-15

Citing reporting, Andrew Curran notes OpenAI runs anti-honeypot training, warning employees that competitors and state-sponsored actors could use money, cafe eavesdropping, or seduction to extract company information; Anthropic and Google employees received similar warnings. RileyRalmuto corroborates: 2025 was the most aggressive year, with Russian networks seemingly the most robust — he says that when people thought he was an OpenAI employee, his DMs were flooded with suspiciously interested foreign "women," while most Chinese accounts were just slop bots.

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