# OpenAI — Romance-baiting scam: AI-assisted pig butchering workflows

- 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-romance-baiting-scam
- Record: https://forck.live/items/641-romance-baiting-scam-ai-assisted-pig-butchering-workflows

OpenAI banned accounts that used AI to assist in romance-baiting and investment scam conversations.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-romance-baiting-scam:

> OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Cambodia and used AI to translate and generate romance, investment scam conversations.

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