# OpenAI — Operation “Nine–emdash Line”: Regional influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-nine-emdash-line
- Record: https://forck.live/items/437-operation-nine-emdash-line-regional-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreported PRC-origin operation called "Nine-emdash Line" that used AI to create regional influence content about the South China Sea, Hong Kong, and US politics.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-nine-emdash-line:

> OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreprorted PRC-origin operation we dubbed "Nine-emdash Line", using AI to create regional influence content about the South China Sea, Hong Kong, and US politics.

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