OpenAI has publicly disclosed and banned multiple ChatGPT accounts it says were linked to China after they were used in attempts to shape U.S. public debate on tariffs and the expansion of artificial intelligence data centers.
The company's report describes the actions as early examples of how foreign actors could leverage generative AI tools for influence operations. According to its threat intelligence team, the banned accounts were part of at least two distinct clusters that "likely originated in China" and used ChatGPT to generate "social media comments and images."
