OpenAI is within the unwelcome highlight this week after a big security flaw in ChatGPT was discovered this week and a previously undisclosed attack got here to light.
The specific vulnerability was first discovered on July 2, when engineer Pedro José Pereira Vieito pointed to Twitter/X that the Mac version of ChatGPT stored users’ conversations in plain text somewhat than decrypting them, meaning hackers could read them with no effort. The app can only be downloaded directly from OpenAI’s website, meaning it doesn’t should undergo Apple’s security protocols that might have prevented this.
The company has now patched the app and encrypted the conversations.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, New York Times reported The company was the victim of a hacker attack that allowed attackers to access OpenAI’s internal messaging systems and acquire details concerning the company’s technologies. OpenAI has not yet publicly reported this breach, but will notify employees in April 2023.
The hacker was not believed to be from a foreign government, and the corporate didn’t alert the FBI or other law enforcement agencies.
This breach prompted Leopold Aschenbrenner, a technical program manager at OpenAI, to send a memo to the board expressing concerns that the corporate was not doing enough to forestall foreign governments from stealing its secrets. This spring, Aschenbrenner was fired from OpenAI.
The company informed the Just The dismissal was not related to this memo, but accordingly The information, He was fired for allegedly passing information to journalists.
The disclosure of the vulnerabilities comes at a time when OpenAI’s dominance on the planet of artificial intelligence continues to grow. The company is heavily backed by Microsoft and has signed a growing variety of deals with media firms to integrate their content into its large language models.
