# OpenAI — Operation “Uncle Spam”: US polarization 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-uncle-spam
- Record: https://forck.live/items/547-operation-uncle-spam-us-polarization-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts originating from China that were using AI to generate US political content and to research individuals, movements, and online communities.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-uncle-spam:

> OpenAI banned China-origin accounts using AI to generate US political content and research people, movements, and online communities.

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