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OpenAI found something spying on it from inside its own office walls, and it wasn\u2019t an LLM. But it took one to catch him.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a former OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device in a conference room at the company\u2019s San Francisco headquarters. Officials say he was trying to gather intel on OpenAI\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n
The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old from Saudi Arabia, on Friday, Oct. 9, after a complaint was filed against him. An OpenAI spokesperson told The Associated Press<\/a> the company found the device, then \u201cused our models to understand the device and where it had come from.\u201d That led it to Alfozan, who planted the device a few days earlier.<\/p>\n OpenAI says there\u2019s no evidence he obtained sensitive information, but the device was sophisticated, and he may have planned to hide more. Prosecutors say a chatbot account linked to his wife asked how to build and hide an audio recorder, and the family had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia,