A Chinese law enforcement official inadvertently exposed a global intimidation campaign after using ChatGPT to document operations targeting Chinese dissidents abroad, according to a new report from OpenAI.
The report says Chinese operatives impersonated U.S. immigration officials and used forged American court documents to threaten dissidents and pressure social media platforms to remove accounts.
Investigators linked the ChatGPT entries to real-world disinformation efforts, including a fabricated obituary falsely claiming a dissident had died.
OpenAI said the campaign involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake online accounts across multiple platforms. The company banned the user after uncovering the activity.
Ben Nimmo of OpenAI described the effort as “industrialized” repression aimed at silencing critics of the Chinese Communist Party.
The findings come amid intensifying U.S.-China competition over artificial intelligence and its use in surveillance, influence, and national security, analysts told CNN.
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