# OpenAI — PRC-linked abuse: Surveillance and influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-prc-linked-abuse
- Record: https://forck.live/items/439-prc-linked-abuse-surveillance-and-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to China that used AI for surveillance, profiling, and research on critics and individuals.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-prc-linked-abuse:

> OpenAI banned PRC-linked accounts using AI to support surveillance-related planning, targeted profiling, and research on critics and other individuals.

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