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Chinese Communist Party

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 6632 Report
China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

2024-04-05

AI tools linked to China were used to disseminate disinformation targeting voters in the U.S. and Taiwan, according to a Microsoft report. These operations included AI-generated imagery and audio to influence political perceptions and election outcomes, originating from the APT Storm-1376 (also known as Spamouflage and Dragonbridge).

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Incident 6671 Report
Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

2023-12-16

In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election in January 2024, a deepfake video circulated showing candidate Lai Ching-te endorsing his rivals. Taiwanese intelligence issued warnings of intensified Chinese disinformation campaigns, such as Spamouflage, aimed at manipulating the election outcome.

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Incidents Harmed By

Incident 6616 Report
Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

2017-08-02

Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 9396 Report
AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

2025-02-21

OpenAI reportedly uncovered evidence of a Chinese state-linked AI-powered surveillance campaign, dubbed "Peer Review," designed to monitor and report anti-state speech on Western social media in real time. The system, believed to be built on Meta’s open-source Llama model, was detected when a developer allegedly used OpenAI’s technology to debug its code. OpenAI also reportedly identified disinformation efforts targeting Chinese dissidents and spreading propaganda in Latin America.

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Incident 6741 Report
Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

2024-03-14

AI-driven election disinformation is escalating globally, leveraging easy-to-use generative AI tools to create convincing deepfakes that mislead voters. This shift has simplified the process for individuals to generate fake content, having already eroded trust in elections by undermining public trust and manipulating voter perceptions. Evidence has, for example, been documented in incidents across the U.S., Moldova, Slovakia, Bangladesh, and Taiwan.

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Incident 10551 Report
FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

2025-04-29

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser stated that adversarial actors, particularly those affiliated with China and organized cybercriminal groups, are increasingly integrating AI tools across the cyberattack lifecycle, with documented use cases reportedly including purported AI-generated spear phishing, business identity fabrication, internal network mapping, and deepfake-enabled fraud. The tools are allegedly already assisting intrusions targeting U.S. infrastructure.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Tencent Holdings

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

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Entity

Microsoft

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

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Entity

Turing Robot

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 66
    16 Reports

    Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

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Entity

Storm-1376

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

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Entity

Spamouflage

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

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Entity

Dragonbridge

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

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Entity

U.S. voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

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Entity

Taiwanese voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Election integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

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Entity

Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 663
    2 Reports

    China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters

  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Entity

People's Liberation Army

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Entity

Base 311

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Entity

Lai Ching-te

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Entity

Electoral integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Democratic Progressive Party

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Unknown deepfake apps

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 667
    1 Report

    Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

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Russian government

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Political operatives

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Political consultants

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Unknown deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Google

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Public trust

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Entity

Political figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Civic society

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 674
    1 Report

    Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

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Chinese state-linked actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Various open-source AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Meta

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Chinese state security researchers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Western social media communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Entity

Social media users in Latin America

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Entity

social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Opposition voices against the Chinese Communist Party

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Chinese dissidents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Entity

Cai Xia

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Entity

Peer Review

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Entity

OpenAI models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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LLaMA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 939
    6 Reports

    AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media

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Government of China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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United States critical infrastructure

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Private companies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Government agencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Employees targeted by phishing

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Employees targeted by deepfake impersonations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Entity

Unknown large language models (LLMs)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Unknown automated phishing tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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Content moderation systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1055
    1 Report

    FBI Highlights AI Use in Infrastructure Intrusions, Naming Volt and Salt Typhoon Among Key Operations

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