# OpenAI — Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-ghana-election
- Record: https://forck.live/items/638-covert-influence-operation-ghana-election-activity

OpenAI banned accounts that used its AI to generate articles, posts, and fake engagement related to Ghana's 2024 presidential election, as part of disrupting malicious uses of AI.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-ghana-election:

> OpenAI banned accounts using AI to generate articles, posts, and fake engagement around Ghana’s 2024 presidential election.

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