{"id":107829,"date":"2025-10-08T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:01:20","slug":"openai-says-chinese-agents-used-chatgpt-to-plan-mass-surveillance-tools-targeting-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107829\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says Chinese agents used ChatGPT to plan mass surveillance tools targeting social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has announced that it banned several ChatGPT accounts that were attempting to use the AI chatbot to develop tools for large-scale monitoring of data collected on social media platforms. The AI startup said that it has banned a user who was asking ChatGPT to help design promotional materials and project plans for an AI-powered social media listening tool for use by a government client. The tool is described as a social media “probe,” which could scan social media sites like X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube for specific extremist speech, and ethnic, religious, and political content.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe company also says it banned another account, suspected of being connected to a government entity, who was using ChatGPT to help write a proposal for a “High-Risk Uyghur-Related Inflow Warning Model.” The proposal would analyze transport bookings and compare them with the police records in order to provide early warning of travel movements by the Uyghur community.<\/p>\n

\u200b”The PRC is making real progress in advancing its autocratic version of AI,” OpenAI<\/a> said in the report.<\/p>\n

\u200b”Some elements of this usage appeared aimed at supporting large-scale monitoring of online or offline traffic, underscoring the importance of our ongoing attention to potential authoritarian abuses in this space,” the company added.<\/p>\n

\u200bNotably, OpenAI’s models are not officially available in China, and the company says that these users may have used a VPN to access its website.<\/p>\n

\u200bOpenAI says it also banned Russian hackers who were using its AI model to develop and refine malware, including a remote access trojan and credential stealers.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe company said in the report that it has noticed that persistent threat actors seemed to have changed their behavior in order to remove some of the better-known signs of AI usage from their content, like removing em-dashes.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe San Francisco-based startup noted that ChatGPT<\/a> is being used to help people correctly identify scams significantly more often than it is being used by threat actors to generate scams.<\/p>\n

\u200b”Our current estimate is that ChatGPT is being used to identify scams up to three times more often than it is being used for scams,” the company noted.<\/p>\n

\u200bSince the beginning of its public threat reporting in February 2024, OpenAI says it has disrupted and reported over 40 networks that violated its usage policies.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe company also noted that threat actors are primarily “building AI into existing workflows,” rather than creating new workflows entirely around AI.<\/p>\n

\u200b”We found no evidence of new tactics or that our models provided threat actors with novel offensive capabilities. In fact, our models consistently refused outright malicious requests,” OpenAI added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has announced that it banned several ChatGPT accounts that were attempting to use the AI chatbot to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,67372,289,290,297,67373,67370,18,67371,19,17,307,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-107829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chatgpt","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-chatgpt","13":"tag-chatgpt-free","14":"tag-chinese-hacker","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-hacker","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-openai","20":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}