OpenAI Disrupts Two Chinese Influence Campaigns

OpenAI identified and disrupted two Chinese influence campaigns using its AI tools, including one dubbed “Sponsored Discontent” that generated Spanish-language anti-American disinformation articles published by Latin American news outlets. The second campaign, labeled “Peer Review,” involved accounts using ChatGPT to create marketing materials for a social media listening tool allegedly used to report protests to […]

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 11: The National Emblem is seen as delegates and security stand in the entranceway to the auditorium before the closing session of the NPC, or National Peoples Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 11, 2024 in Beijing, China. China's annual political gathering known as the Two Sessions convenes leaders and lawmakers to set the government's agenda for domestic economic and social development for the year. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

OpenAI identified and disrupted two Chinese influence campaigns using its AI tools, including one dubbed “Sponsored Discontent” that generated Spanish-language anti-American disinformation articles published by Latin American news outlets.
The second campaign, labeled “Peer Review,” involved accounts using ChatGPT to create marketing materials for a social media listening tool allegedly used to report protests to Chinese security services, violating OpenAI’s policies against surveillance.