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AI Companies Play Cat-and-Mouse With Secret-Stealing Spies
WSJ • • business
Key Points:
- An OpenAI employee was approached by a stranger at a San Francisco playground who pretended to be friendly but was actually trying to gather information about the employee's work.
- The stranger regularly appeared at the playground with a child to engage in small talk and extract details about OpenAI's activities.
- This incident is part of a broader effort by OpenAI to raise employee awareness about espionage and the risk of corporate espionage.
- The concern over spying intensified after federal authorities arrested an OpenAI employee for planting a listening device.
