# OpenAI — Operation "Spamouflage": China-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-spamouflage
- Record: https://forck.live/items/777-operation-spamouflage-china-linked-influence-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to the PRC-origin influence operation 'Spamouflage', which used AI to research social media, generate posts, and debug a previously unreported website.

## Evidence

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

> OpenAI banned accounts associated with the PRC-origin operation "Spamouflage", using AI to research social media activity, generate posts, and debug a previously unreported website.

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