Artificial Intelligence: Newspaper: OpenAI warns employees about sex traps

San Francisco. According to a newspaper report, the ChatGPT developer OpenAI warns employees that they could become the target of spies - including through sexual advances. Such so-called “honey traps”, for which secret services are notorious, were the subject of some training courses for employees, wrote the “Wall Street Journal”.

Employees were also warned that they could be offered money for trade secrets - or that their conversations in cafes could be overheard, it said, citing people in the know. Employees of other AI heavyweights would also hear such warnings. OpenAI employees are also advised not to show themselves outside with the company's logos and not to leave any information on whiteboards even in the office - in case cleaning staff are hired to spy on them.

The large American AI laboratories are leaders in technology and are in fierce competition with one another. This raises concerns about becoming a target of agents from other countries or of industrial espionage by competitors. A large proportion of young people work in the industry. The Silicon Valley stereotype also includes the high proportion of men who are more adept at using computers than in interpersonal relationships. Tech companies in the USA have been the target of espionage activities in the past.

Just a few days ago, an OpenAI employee was arrested. The Saudi Arabian citizen is accused of placing a recording device in a conference room used by top management in San Francisco. There has so far been no information about the aim of this campaign.