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Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity
OpenAI banned accounts using AI to generate articles, posts, and fake engagement around Ghana’s 2024 presidential election.
Saturday, 1 February 2025
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Iranian influence nexus: Cross-platform activity
OpenAI banned Iran-linked accounts using AI to generate articles and social posts tied to IUVM and STORM-2035 influence activity.
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Operation “Peer Review”: AI-assisted surveillance planning
OpenAI banned likely China-origin accounts using AI to draft surveillance-tool pitches, analyze documents, and debug code.
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Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception
OpenAI banned accounts potentially used to facilitate a deceptive employment scheme with characteristics of publicly reported North Korea-linked IT-worker activity.
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Cyber threat actors: AI-assisted intrusion research
OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with publicly reported DPRK-affiliated threat actors using AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.
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Romance-baiting scam: AI-assisted pig butchering workflows
OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Cambodia and used AI to translate and generate romance, investment scam conversations.
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Task scam: AI-assisted fake review jobs
OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Cambodia and used AI to translate messages for fake-review job scams that asked victims to pay fees.
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Operation “Sponsored Discontent”: Influence activity
OpenAI banned likely China-origin accounts using AI to generate English social posts and Spanish-language articles.