OpenAI warns employees about honeypot spies: "Could they be a spy?"

zacharynado · x · 2026-10-16

WSJ reporter Erin Kwoo reports that OpenAI is warning its employees about honeypot spies — including the advice that if someone tries to seduce you, "first consider — could they be a spy?" — and even strangers with children in playgrounds. X users are having fun with it, joking that OpenAI researchers went from "too poor to too rich" without ever learning to talk to women.

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