OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a listening device in an office, charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications.
Read the original at www.theverge.com→An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national....
Original headline: "OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room"
Coverage timeline
- Oct 13, 20:45 UTC The Verge AI lead source OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
- Oct 13, 22:06 UTC Hacker News (AI) OpenAI engineer accused of planting listening device inside company's office
- Oct 13, 23:17 UTC Wired AI An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
- Oct 14, 09:26 UTC Hacker News (AI) OpenAI Engineer Allegedly Hid Toilet Paper-Wrapped Mic in Conference Room
- Oct 14, 13:27 UTC r/LocalLLaMA OpenAI finds Spying device, then finds evidence in "chatbot account" logs of the spouses of one of their employees
- Oct 14, 16:41 UTC Ars Technica AI Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room