US EditionOpenAI Bans Accounts Tied to Romance Scams, China Ops
OpenAI banned accounts tied to Chinese-linked scams and influence efforts using ChatGPT for fake personas, documents, and propaganda, revealing a large-scale, resource-intensive campaign.
- On Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026, OpenAI's report details how a Chinese law enforcement-linked user used ChatGPT to reveal a covert campaign targeting dissidents.
- Chinese-Linked operators used ChatGPT and other models in resource-intensive campaigns with hundreds of human staff and thousands of fake accounts to suppress dissent and silence critics.
- Generating emails and forged materials, operators used ChatGPT to create English-language emails to U.S. state officials and business and financial policy analysts, forge documents, impersonate officials and seek face-swap instructions using FaceFusion.
- OpenAI banned the ChatGPT user after linking inputs to real-world activity, CNN sought comment, and Liu Pengyu of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. said, `cyber security is a common challenge`, while Nimmo said, "This is what Chinese, modern, transnational repression looks like."
- Amid an intensifying U.S.‑China AI rivalry, the report shows how authoritarian information operations and transnational repression use AI, raising national security risks for governments and telecoms.
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Chinese Official Accidentally Reveals Vast Influence Operation Through ChatGPT Use
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OpenAI announced that it has suspended more accounts associated with China's order forces, specialized shells in romantic shelters and influence operations, including a campaign of denial against the first woman...
A vast Chinese influence operation, accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement officer's use of ChatGPT, focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to…
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