'Secret voice recording' crisis in OpenAI building: He wrapped it in toilet paper and hid it in his room!

In the written statement made by the Ministry, information was given about the incident that occurred in a building in California of the OpenAI company, which developed the artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT. Accordingly, at the end of September, company employees found a voice recorder inserted into the USB port behind a television in the executives' conference room.

In the investigation carried out by the company, it was determined that the voice recorder wrapped in toilet paper was placed around September 28 and the files inside were encrypted.

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Security camera footage showed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi Arabian citizen who started working as an engineer at the company in July 2025, walked around the conference room more than once before the device was found, and entered the room on October 5 and looked towards where the device was located.

It was claimed that another voice recorder was found in a bag belonging to Alfozan.

Alfozan, who allegedly intended to record conversations in which sensitive information was discussed, was detained on October 9, following the company's complaint.