Incident #1580
PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates
Description
OpenAI reported that two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China used its models to support apparent covert influence operations about U.S. AI and technology policy. The accounts reportedly generated a variety of media and social media comments about AI data centers, electricity costs, tariffs, and U.S. tech competition before OpenAI banned them.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- people's-republic-of-china-linked-influence-operators
- openai-users
- information-manipulation-actors-in-china
- information-manipulation-actors
- chatgpt-users
Alleged Developers
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- openai
- large-language-model-developers
- chatbot-developers
- synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- social-media-users
- people-participating-in-u.s.-ai-policy-debates
- openai
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
- general-public
- epistemic-integrity
- communities-debating-ai-data-center-development
- general-public-of-the-united-states