# OpenAI — SweetSpecter: China-linked cyber activity

- 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-sweetspecter
- Record: https://forck.live/items/700-sweetspecter-china-linked-cyber-activity

OpenAI banned accounts associated with a suspected China-based adversary using AI for malicious activities.

## Evidence

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

> OpenAI banned accounts likely belonging to a suspected China-based adversary tracked as SweetSpecter, using AI to research vulnerabilities, write code, and support spear-phishing activity.

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