OpenAI Bans Chinese Accounts for Surveillance Tool Aid

OpenAI bans suspected China-linked accounts for seeking surveillance proposals

OpenAI said on Tuesday it has banned several ChatGPT accounts with suspected links to the Chinese government entities after the users asked for proposals to monitor social media conversations.

OpenAI says Chinese agents used ChatGPT to plan mass surveillance tools targeting social media

OpenAI has banned several ChatGPT accounts attempting to use the AI for large-scale data monitoring on social media. This includes accounts connected to government entities and Russian hackers developing malware.

US foreign adversaries use ChatGPT with other AI models in cyber operations: Report

Malicious actors from U.S. foreign adversaries used ChatGPT jointly with other AI models to conduct various cyber operations, according to a new OpenAI report.  Users linked to China and Russia relied on OpenAI’s technology in conjunction with other models, such as China’s DeepSeek, to conduct phishing campaigns and covert influence operations, the report found.  “Increasingly, we…

OpenAI bans some Chinese, Russian accounts using AI for evil

: It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malware

OpenAI has disrupted (more) Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to create social media surveillance tools

OpenAI has disclosed that a now-banned account originating in China was using ChatGPT to help design promotional materials and project plans for a social media listening tool. OpenAI says that this work was purportedly done for a government client. The tool was a "probe" that could crawl social media sites like X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and YouTube for specific political, ethnic or religious content as defined by the operator. The c…

'Chinese' Operatives Asked ChatGPT To Build Surveillance Tools ...