Saudi national working at OpenAI arrested for bugging executive conference room

‘A chatbot account associated with the engineer’s spouse, which shared identifiers with his own account, submitted prompts about building and concealing a continuous audio recorder, adding Wi-Fi connectivity, listening remotely and encrypting its memory card, according to the complaint.‘

Wonder what the ‘chatbot’ in question was and why it wasn’t named. A competitor?

A very stupid thing to do, but I can't help but think that if the shoe were on the other foot, say, if an OpenAI agent had escaped its harness and hacked a speakerphone in the office of HuggingFace, they would shrug and no consequences would follow.

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077703

This is nothing compared to killing and dismembering the occasional journalist. A mere trifle. Only humans were bugged, no AI persons were infringed on.

Trump will let the Saudi National off. He's friends with the current ruler of KSA.