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The ‘Sophisticated’ Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99

OpenAI said Tuesday it had sicced the FBI on an employee who was spying. But this alleged James Bond wasn’t exactly getting his tech from Q Division.

Judging from the press materials released on Tuesday by the Justice Department, the device the accused, Abdulrahman Alfozan, is said to have used to bug a conference room at an OpenAI office in San Francisco was a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense. It’s a microphone and camera the width of your thumbnail. You can order yours today for the low low price of $13.99. In a statement earlier on Tuesday, OpenAI called the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense a “sophisticated recording device.”

The Seeed website includes a YouTube video about making one into a DIY AI-pin, sort of like the ill-fated Humane Ai Pin.

Don’t get carried away imagining all the espionage fantasies that have suddenly become affordable. The $6.99 camera built into the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is 2 megapixels, which you may remember as the resolution from the first generation iPhone. Even the disembodied AI voice in the video on the Seeed website says the images it produces is blurry.

But “sophisticated” may not be an altogether inaccurate word. The suspect was apparently (and allegedly) taking advantage of the device’s 2.4GHz Wi-Fi subsystem to transmit data to some unknown second device.

“[…]a chatbot account associated with Alfozan’s spouse (which shared multiple identifiers and attributes with Alfozan’s own chatbot account) submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing a device, including inquiries about ‘build[ing] a continuous audio recorder,’ ‘customiz[ing] Wi-Fi .


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