# OpenAI — “Tech and Tariffs” Campaign: Influence activity targeting US tech policy

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-tech-and-tariffs
- Record: https://forck.live/items/98-tech-and-tariffs-campaign-influence-activity-targeting-us-tech-policy

OpenAI banned accounts suspected of originating from the People's Republic of China that used AI to generate comments and cartoons about US tech policy, tariffs, and trade restrictions.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-tech-and-tariffs:

> OpenAI banned likely PRC-origin accounts using AI to create comments and cartoons about US tech policy, tariffs, and trade restrictions.

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