Former OpenAI staff say they warned about weak security for years, while OpenAI raises its bug bounty to as much as about $172,000

Indian Express reports that when OpenAI disclosed in October that it found a recording device planted in an executive conference room, several former employees were not surprised. According to five people familiar with the matter, staff raised concerns before ChatGPT launched, and some concluded that management cared more about keeping pace with Google and Anthropic than about security. Two people said OpenAI has begun to change strategy, and that in August product executive Thibault Sottiaux reassigned a quarter of its production engineers to security.

• Do not put passwords, ID numbers or client secrets into any chatbot, whoever runs it, and turn off chat history for sensitive work in the settings.
• If you handle customer data, check what your AI tools store and for how long, and keep that written down in case a customer asks.

Source: Indian Express. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: OpenAI, from its own announcement. How we source and credit