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'His wife's ChatGPT account, a bug hidden in tissue behind the TV': Fireship's OpenAI spy video hits 789K views in a day
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Fireship's video on the OpenAI conference-room bugging case, titled "OpenAI's lead engineer was secretly a spy...", passed 789,000 views and 14,000 likes in less than a day.
Working from the criminal complaint, Fireship explains that the engineer built the wiretap using his wife's ChatGPT account, hid it in toilet paper behind the TV in the executive boardroom, and was caught within 48 hours. In Korea, SBS covered the case under the headline "Why is there tissue behind the TV?" and passed 250,000 views.
Top comments joked that he "forgot the 'make no mistakes' in his prompts" and "should have used Claude," each drawing thousands of likes. Another, with 630 likes, questioned how OpenAI found a MAC address in a user's personal chats it says it never reads.