An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
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Using a chatbot to plan a covert recording operation shows how general assistants can become tradecraft tutors by default. Enterprises deploying internal assistants need hard guardrails on sensitive queries and better insider-threat monitoring, not just external threat models.
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