“Cyber Special Operations”: China-linked influence planning

OpenAI banned a ChatGPT account linked to an individual associated with Chinese law enforcement who used the model to plan a covert influence operation targeting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and to polish status reports on 'cyber special operations.'

The model refused to assist with the planning, and the user's activity revealed a large-scale, resource-intensive strategy by Chinese law enforcement to suppress dissent and silence critics, including the use of locally deployed AI models such as DeepSeek and Qwen.