ByThomas Brewster,
Forbes Staff.
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ver the last year, federal agents were struggling to uncover the identity of a darkweb child exploitation site, with little success. Then a possible avenue opened up, thanks to the suspect’s use of ChatGPT.
In the first known federal search warrant asking OpenAI for user data, reviewed by Forbes after it was unsealed in Maine last week, Homeland Security Investigations revealed it had been chatting with the administrator in an undercover capacity on the child exploitation site when the suspect noted they’d been using ChatGPT.
