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An official OpenAI account on X was taken over to hawk a cryptocurrency rip-off on Monday night.
On Monday at 6:24PM ET, the @OpenAINewsroom account, which shares information from OpenAI and has practically 54,000 followers, made a now-deleted publish promoting an “$OPENAI” token.
“We’re very comfortable to announce $OPEANAI: the token bridging the hole between Al and blockchain expertise,” the publish mentioned. “All OpenAI customers are eligible to assert a chunk of $OPENAI’s preliminary provide. Holding $OPENAI will grant entry to all of our future beta applications.” The publish additionally included a hyperlink to a spoofed model of OpenAI’s web site at a URL that wasn’t openai.com.
After I visited the positioning, there was a piece for claiming the $OPENAI cryptocurrency. After I clicked the button, it requested me to attach a pockets, which I didn’t do.
OpenAI and X didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. As of this writing, the OpenAI Newsroom account hasn’t posted something to elucidate what might need occurred. The account launched initially of this month.