63 pointsby jaredwieneran hour ago10 comments
  • delichon29 minutes ago

      Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. 
    
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141
  • minimaxiran hour ago
    > We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from

    Did OpenAI do a marketing bit in the middle of an espionage accusation?

    • KazaNLP15 minutes ago
      Funny. I'd bet on whatever model they used over whoever showed up from today's FBI.
    • seydor7 minutes ago
      "looks like a microphone"

      "almost surely made in china"

    • xvxvxan hour ago
      Yes. Yes they did. Which makes me question the honesty of their announcement.
  • int32_6442 minutes ago
    Between this and the Ledger implants I wonder if AI companies will have a supply chain risk in the future where their models get exfiltrated over 5G.

    Good time to start a company that builds giant Faraday cages over data centers.

    • iAMkenough15 minutes ago
      From the makers of The Iron Dome, now introducing The Copper Dome
  • I_am_tiberius16 minutes ago
    You got me. I ask the obvious question: What's the "sophisticated" device?
  • seydor8 minutes ago
    > The employee was terminated.

    in this context, they should be more specific about how terminal s/he is

  • TacticalCoder12 minutes ago
    > The device was concealed in toilet paper, and its contents were encrypted.

    Concealing a recording device in a conference room in toilet paper is a bit strange. Do executives meet in the toilets to discuss strategic moves?

  • Razengan39 minutes ago
    An iPhone? A laptop?
  • rvzan hour ago
    So but OpenAI did it to Apple and they were caught, and now OpenAI doesn't like it when it happens to them?

    Either way, there goes the false flag and the reason for companies to stop hiring humans over this espionage.

  • charcircuit11 minutes ago
    Why make this public? Usually companies just silently terminate and pursue employees who do this.
    • gorgoiler6 minutes ago
      A common example is if a journalist approaches you saying they had a tip off and are about to run a story. The journalist, being a good old fashioned balanced-reporting type, calls you and asks you for a comment. Rather than responding to add your side to their story, you just blast out a press release before the journalist can even publish.

      (Or maybe you spend two hours on the phone to them talking about all kinds of stuff while also scribbling a note to your PA saying “EMPLOYEE JOE BUG STORY LEAKED TO VALLEYWAG PUT OUT COUNTER PR GET AGEAD OF STORY” and hoping they get a tweet out before the valleywag gumshoe gets off the phone.)

    • binloga minute ago
      Hard to keep a DoJ/FBI investigation under wraps
    • augment_me6 minutes ago
      IPO remember? Our information is so valuable we have foreign actors trying to steal it. Our model is so good it managed to figure out what this recording device was.
    • testfrequencya few seconds ago
      I’ve been wondering the same.

      This isn’t uncommon, but it’s rare this info is shared in such detail publicly..possibly to make an example.

    • gizmodo597 minutes ago
      court records? you can't hide them
  • wren699117 minutes ago
    They're trying to distil OpenAI employees now. Absolutely shameless