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The hacker lifted details from discussions in an online forum
where employees talked about OpenAI's latest technologies, the
report said, citing two people familiar with the incident.
However, they did not get into the systems where OpenAI, the
firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, houses and builds its AI,
the report added.
Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI did not immediately respond to a
Reuters request for comment.
OpenAI executives informed both employees at an all-hands
meeting in April last year and the company's board about the
breach, according to the report, but executives decided not to
share the news publicly as no information about customers or
partners had been stolen.
OpenAI executives did not consider the incident a national
security threat, believing the hacker was a private individual
with no known ties to a foreign government, the report said. The
San Francisco-based company did not inform the federal law
enforcement agencies about the breach, it added.
OpenAI in May said it had disrupted five covert influence
operations that sought to use its AI models for "deceptive
activity" across the internet, the latest to stir safety
concerns about the potential misuse of the technology.
The Biden administration was poised to open up a new front in
its effort to safeguard the U.S. AI technology from China and
Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the
most advanced AI Models including ChatGPT, Reuters earlier
reported, citing sources.
In May, 16 companies developing AI pledged at a global meeting
to develop the technology safely at a time when regulators are
scrambling to keep up with rapid innovation and emerging risks.
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey and Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru;
Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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