# OpenAI — Hoax: Fake Russian “troll” error message

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-hoax-russian-troll
- Record: https://forck.live/items/698-hoax-fake-russian-troll-error-message

OpenAI banned an account that likely originated in the US and used AI to create a fake ChatGPT error message claiming to detect 'Russian troll' activity.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-hoax-russian-troll:

> OpenAI banned an account that likely originated in the US and used AI to create a fake ChatGPT error message claiming to detect “Russian troll” activity.

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