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OpenAI bans PRC-linked accounts using AI for surveillance and influence operations
OpenAI identified and banned accounts linked to the People's Republic of China that were using its AI systems to support surveillance-related planning, targeted profiling, and research on critics and other individuals. The action is part of OpenAI's ongoing effort to disrupt malicious uses of its platform. This represents a concrete enforcement case at the intersection of AI misuse, state-linked actors, and platform safety.
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