# OpenAI — Iranian influence nexus: Cross-platform 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-iranian-influence-nexus
- Record: https://forck.live/items/640-iranian-influence-nexus-cross-platform-activity

OpenAI banned Iran-linked accounts that used AI to generate articles and social posts related to IUVM and STORM-2035 influence operations.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-iranian-influence-nexus:

> OpenAI banned Iran-linked accounts using AI to generate articles and social posts tied to IUVM and STORM-2035 influence activity.

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