Reuters: OpenAI artificial intelligence data stolen as a result of hacking
Last year, hackers gained access to internal messaging systems at OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, and stole details about the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
As reported by Reuters, the hackers gained access to information from discussions on an online forum where employees discussed the latest OpenAI technologies, but the attackers did not penetrate the systems where OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, stores and creates its artificial intelligence.
According to the report, OpenAI executives informed both employees at a team meeting last April and the company's board of directors about the hack, but management decided not to share the news publicly because no personal information of clients or partners was stolen.
OpenAI management did not view the incident as a threat to national security, believing that the hacker was a private citizen with no ties to a foreign government, the report says. The San Francisco-based company did not report the hack to federal law enforcement, it added.
In May, OpenAI said it had thwarted five hackers that attempted to use its artificial intelligence models to «cheat» on the Internet.