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How did they get that capture of Alfozan looking behind the TV? Does OpenAI install its own surveillance cameras behind TVs to prevent espionage?

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I imagine they found the device and then planted a camera to catch whomever came back to get the original device

Free startup idea: Anti-espionage cameras for corporate offices. Put it behind TVs and plants etc. and it will notify the security team if it detects new objects.

I'm sure employers will never use in-office surveillance monitoring for anything that resembles algorithmic labor management and exploitation

Certainly they would be transparent and very ethical with something like that

Now with extra-wide stereo audio feed, just in case they muble to themselves while doing their thing.

Won't that startup just be the spy in that situation

If designed well, it could be audited hardware with on-device processing.

A camera behind every TV in the office would be something…

But no the boring answer is that after they found the device they left it in place and planted the camera to see who came looking for it.

That does make more sense. But if any company were to take surprising security measures, it should be the frontier labs.

> How did they get that capture of Alfozan looking behind the TV?

“OpenAI personnel found the device Sept. 3…On Oct. 5, the complaint says, Alfozan entered the conference room and appeared to look behind the television.”

The image was captured after the bug was found.

So it was not AI agents catching the perp it was a camera?

They just asked a chatbot to identify the device and its origins, apparently. His log was used as evidence after the fact as well.

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