OpenAI has banned accounts using ChatGPT for malicious purposes Misinformation and surveillance campaigns were uncovered Threat actors are increasingly using AI for harm OpenAI has confirmed it recently identified a set of accounts involved in malicious campaigns, and banned users responsible. The banned accounts involved in the ‘Peer Review’ and ‘Sponsored Discontent’ campaigns likely originate from China, OpenAI said, and “appear to have used, or attempted to use, models built by OpenAI and another U.S. AI lab in connection with an apparent surveillance operation and to generate anti-American, Disrupting malicious uses of our models: an update February 2025 3 Spanish-language...