OpenAI, ChatGPT and Surveillance Tools

OpenAI cracks down on users developing social media surveillance tool using ChatGPT
OpenAI recently published a report highlighting some attempted misuses of its ChatGPT service. The developer caught users in China exploiting ChatGPT's "reasoning" capabilities to develop a
OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Chinese Group for Spy Tools
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese threat actors, including ones leveraged for the development of spying tools.
OpenAI Says AI-Powered Surveillance Tools Using ChatGPT “Seem to Originate from China”
OpenAI also banned a range of ChatGPT accounts that used its models to generate short comments in English criticizing Chinese dissident Cai Xia and long-form news articles in Spanish focusing on U.S. social and political divisions, particularly in the lead-up to the 2024 APEC Forum in Peru.
China’s AI surveillance? OpenAI bans accounts using ChatGPT for social media monitoring
OpenAI has banned several accounts from China using its AI to create sales pitches for a social media surveillance company. These accounts aimed to collect real-time data on anti-China protests for Chinese authorities,
OpenAI finds North Korea using ChatGPT for cyber scams, China for censorship
OpenAI said Feb. 21 that it had identified and removed several North Korean-linked accounts that misused ChatGPT to create fake resumes and online profiles. According to the company, the accounts used ChatGPT-generated materials to apply for jobs at Western companies.
OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns
OpenAI banned accounts using ChatGPT for AI-powered surveillance and influence campaigns linked to China, Iran, and North Korea.
OpenAI removes users in China, North Korea suspected of malicious activities
OpenAI has removed accounts of users from China and North Korea who the artificial intelligence company believes were using its technology for malicious purposes including surveillance and opinion-influence operations,
Report: Suspected China propagandists used ChatGPT to generate articles critical of U.S.
OpenAI claims Chinese propagandists used ChatGPT to produce articles and opinion pieces that were critical of the U.S. and ...
Open AI bans multiple accounts found to be misusing ChatGPT
OpenAI has confirmed it recently identified a set of accounts involved in malicious campaigns, and banned users responsible.
China, Iran-based threat actors have found new ways to use American AI models for covert influence: Report
A February threat report from OpenAI details examples of how threat actors, including those likely based in China and Iran, ...
Musk's xAI unveils Grok-3 AI chatbot to rival ChatGPT, China's DeepSeek
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to ...
What is DeepSeek: China’s AI has got people talking
DeepSeek has become one of the world’s best known chatbots and much of that is due to it being developed in China – a country ...
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Governments Have Access! The Terrifying Reality of AI Data Collection by ChatGPT and DeepSeek
DeepSeek and ChatGPT raise privacy concerns as legal loopholes enable government access to user data under national security.
A Chinese paper finds ChatGPT — not DeepSeek — can generate stock-market returns. But the key insight doesn’t have anything to do with AI.
A new research paper produced in China finds that ChatGPT — and not domestic rival DeepSeek — can be used to forecast the ...
ChatGPT parent OpenAI’s weekly active users surge past 400 million despite DeepSeek’s emergence
OpenAi last week dismissed a US$97.4 billion bid from Elon Musk and other investor. Read more at straitstimes.com.