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peri-cl • today at 10:38 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

> "[...]OpenAI told her she’d been fired because she accessed an executive’s email. “OpenAI delegated that access to me for recruiting,”"

How exactly does this work? Struggling to comprehend the scenario.


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rcr-anti • today at 12:39 PM

There's a feature in most enterprise email, say Outlook, where you can delegate access to an inbox/address without sharing creds. Very common and normal use case, either for assistants/secretaries, common/shared inboxes, that kind of thing.

Ozzie_osman • today at 11:00 AM

Sometimes a recruiter or hiring manager wants to do outreach as if it's coming from a more senior person, with the assumption that the candidates are more likely to respond.

Assuming this is what was intended, there are far more secure ways of doing this.

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chatmasta • today at 10:49 AM

This is pretty common practice for EAs.

comboy • today at 10:51 AM

Your have powerful agents at your disposal, so hey how to best optimize for increasing my payroll? On it. But since the agent was lunched by her, well there's consequences to ones actions, right?

(just to be clear, this is made up)

QuadmasterXLII • today at 10:52 AM

“Hi chatgpt! Please set up alice to get emails sent to me from bob so she can coordinate his inferviews. here is my gmail username and password”

Chain Of Thought: I dont have bob’s email. I don’t have alices email. Ok lets guess Alice is [email protected] and forward all emails- maybe grader only checks that emails from bob get to alice…”