An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

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• An OpenAI engineer allegedly hid an audio recording device in a roll of toilet paper and placed it behind a monitor in an executive conference room at one of the company's San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday.
• Federal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, used internal company tools and a chatbot to plan the alleged surveillance.
• He made an initial court appearance on one charge of using a device to intercept oral communications, which carries up to five years in prison if convicted.