OpenAI finds new Chinese influence campaigns using its tools

OpenAI spotted and disrupted two uses of its AI tools as part of broader Chinese influence campaigns, including one designed to spread Spanish-language anti-American disinformation. AI's potential to supercharge disinformation and speed the work of nation state-backed cyberattacks is steadily moving from scary theory to complex reality. OpenAI recently published its latest threat report, identifying several examples of efforts to misuse ChatGPT and its other tools. One campaign, which OpenAI labeled "sponsored discontent," used ChatGPT accounts to generate both English-language comments attacking Chinese dissident Cai Xia and Spanish-language news articles critical of the U.S. OpenAI, which started publishing threat reports in 2024, says that it's doing so "to inform efforts to understand and prepare for how the P.R.C. or other authoritarian regimes may try to leverage AI against the U.S. and allied countries, as well as their own people."