# OpenAI — Operation “STORM-2035”: Iran-origin influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-storm-2035-2024
- Record: https://forck.live/items/695-operation-storm-2035-iran-origin-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to Iran-based influence operation STORM-2035 that used AI to generate election-related content targeting the US and UK and published it across sites.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-storm-2035-2024:

> OpenAI banned Iran-origin STORM-2035 accounts using AI to generate US and UK election content and publish it across sites.

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