Run GitHub Actions 2x faster and build with Codesmith at https://www.blacksmith.sh/ An OpenAI engineer built a wiretap with his wife’s ChatGPT account, hid it in toilet paper behind the executive boardroom TV, and lasted 48 hours before getting caught. Let's dive in. Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev
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"You're absolutely right! I did not account for the presence of the surveillance team at OpenAI for our plan. That was a huge oversight on my end! Do you want me to build a new surveillance-aware plan?"
bro really forgot the "make no mistakes" in his prompts
This fixed my imposter syndrome. Thanks
asking chatgpt itself where the meeting rooms are hilarious
He should have used Claude to help him. Is he stupid?!?!?
just wait for anthropic to announce they caught a way more sophisticated spy
claude, plan me a perfect crime, make no mistakes
How convenient of OpenAI to find the MAC address in a user's personal chats that they claim to never read.
Homie really hit em with the Temu wiretap
>only saudi employee at the company >he's a criminal LMAO
South Park is gonna have a field day with this one
Proof that domain specific competence doesn't always translate into basic intelligence and common sense.
Honestly considering who is father is, the hiring manager was the real criminal!!!
wrapping the device in toilet paper lol 🤣
Props to the surveillance team to finding the bug
The toilet paper was probably more noticable than the bare device.
Bro thought he was james bond
I'm old enough to remember when this channel was just about Javascript framework fatigue and I'm only 3 years old.
We are already in Vibecode Espionage era lmao
Using chatGPT to ask how to build the spying device is hilarious