# OpenAI — Operation “VAGue Focus”: Social engineering and 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-vague-focus
- Record: https://forck.live/items/553-operation-vague-focus-social-engineering-and-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts that used AI for social engineering, surveillance-themed research, and influence activity targeting critics.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-vague-focus:

> OpenAI banned accounts using AI for social engineering, surveillance-themed research, and influence activity targeting critics.

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