OpenAI bans China-linked accounts over ChatGPT influence campaigns (opens in new tab)

OpenAI said in a June 10 threat report that it banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating in China after finding they used the chatbot to create English-language content for covert influence operations targeting U.S. technology debates. One cluster, which OpenAI called “Data Center Bandwagon,” generated social media comments, images and comic strips linking AI data center expansion to higher household electricity bills, while accounts posing as Americans posted the material on...