# OpenAI — Operation “Sponsored Discontent”: Influence 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-sponsored-discontent
- Record: https://forck.live/items/642-operation-sponsored-discontent-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts likely originating from China that used AI to generate English social media posts and Spanish-language articles.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-sponsored-discontent:

> OpenAI banned likely China-origin accounts using AI to generate English social posts and Spanish-language articles.

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