OpenAI executive appears to have Twitter account hacked to promote cryptocurrency scam
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The chief technology officer of OpenAI appeared to have her Twitter account hacked on Thursday evening to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.
Mira Murati, who has worked at OpenAI for more than five years helping to build advanced AI software, lost control of her Twitter account around 6:03 p.m. Pacific Time, according to timestamps on the tweets. Her account began promoting a new cryptocurrency called “$OPENAI” that was supposedly “driven by artificial intelligence-based language models.”
The unauthorized tweets encouraged Ms. Murati’s followers to send money to an Ethereum digital wallet address to receive free “airdropped” coins as part of a new initial coin offering.
The tweets were then quickly deleted, only to reappear minutes later with slightly altered wording.
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