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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York
A Man Was Prosecuted After OpenAI Reviewed His ChatGPT Messages and Alerted the FBI
A former Goldman Sachs analyst pleaded guilty to stalking and threat charges, and prosecutors obtained the chat history using warrants written for stored electronic communications.
OpenAI's safety systems flagged months of conversations in which a 25-year-old former Goldman Sachs analyst described plans to harm his former girlfriend. A small internal review team read the exchanges and the company alerted the Federal B…
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