😲 ChatGPT helped catch the admin of the darknet forum

Law enforcement agencies have always been most active in investigating shadow resources containing pornographic materials involving children. Among several such cases, a team that had long interested the authorities came to light. Since 2019, American intelligence agencies have been trying to uncover the identity of the admin, but they have been unsuccessful. However, at some point, he himself, from an anonymous account, revealed that he uses #ChatGPT and even shared prompts and results from his dialogue with the AI.

This was enough for the agents to prepare a warrant with OpenAI. As a result, the agents obtained an excel file with user data, which, when compared with other evidence, was sufficient to link the identity of the admin to 36-year-old Drew Hyner, a former serviceman who worked at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Hyner made an unforgivable mistake by quoting a private dialogue from the service😲, which is legally subordinate to the authorities.