OpenAI has banned several accounts from China using its AI to create sales pitches for a social media surveillance company. These accounts aimed to collect real-time data on anti-China protests for Chinese authorities,

OpenAI also banned a range of ChatGPT accounts that used its models to generate short comments in English criticizing Chinese dissident Cai Xia and long-form news articles in Spanish focusing on U.S. social and political divisions, particularly in the lead-up to the 2024 APEC Forum in Peru.

OpenAI, America’s top artificial intelligence startup, just banned multiple accounts on ChatGPT, accusing them of being involved in developing a surveillance

OpenAI has prohibited users from China and North Korea from accessing its ChatGPT platform due to malicious exploitation. The banned accounts were involved in activities like generating negative articles about the US and creating fake résumés,

OpenAI recently banned several accounts that had been using ChatGPT to write sales pitches and debug code for a suspected social media surveillance tool that likely originated in China, the company said — part of a broader effort by the AI startup to police malicious uses of its powerful AI models.