# OpenAI — Operation “Helgoland Bite”: German-language 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-helgoland-bite
- Record: https://forck.live/items/549-operation-helgoland-bite-german-language-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts originating in Russia that used AI to generate German-language political content about Ukraine, NATO, and domestic issues.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-helgoland-bite:

> OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Russia and used AI to generate German-language political content about Ukraine, NATO, and domestic issues.

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