# OpenAI — STORM-2035: Recidivist influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-storm-2035-2025
- Record: https://forck.live/items/546-storm-2035-recidivist-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts associated with the Iran-linked STORM-2035 operation that used AI for influence activities.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-storm-2035-2025:

> OpenAI banned accounts associated with the likely Iran-linked STORM-2035 operation using AI to create influence content about US, UK, Irish, and Venezuelan politics.

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