OpenAI Built a Custom ChatGPT to Hunt Down Internal Leakers
The AI company uses its own tech to cross-reference news articles with employee access logs.
OpenAI's security team has deployed an interesting weapon in its fight against leaks: a custom ChatGPT built specifically to catch loose-lipped employees.
According to The Information, the internal tool has access to the company's Slack messages, emails, and documents. When a story breaks, security staff can cross-reference the leaked information against access logs to identify who might have talked.
It's a classic case of eating your own cooking — using AI to solve a very human problem. The approach highlights how companies are finding practical, if slightly dystopian, applications for large language models beyond the obvious chatbot use cases.
For a company sitting on some of the most valuable AI research in the world, plugging leaks is serious business. Turns out the best tool for the job might be the one they already built.