# OpenAI — Operation "Zero Zeno": Israel-linked influence activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-zero-zeno
- Record: https://forck.live/items/775-operation-zero-zeno-israel-linked-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreported Israel-linked influence operation called 'Zero Zeno' that used AI to generate content with various political stances.

## Evidence

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

> OpenAI banned accounts linked to a previously unreprorted Israel-origin operation we dubbed “Zero Zeno,” using AI to generate anti-Hamas, anti-Qatar, pro-Israel, anti-BJP, and pro-Histadrut content.

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