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People's Republic of China-linked influence operators

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 15803 Report
PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

2026-06-10

OpenAI reported that two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China used its models to support apparent covert influence operations about U.S. AI and technology policy. The accounts reportedly generated a variety of media and social media comments about AI data centers, electricity costs, tariffs, and U.S. tech competition before OpenAI banned them.

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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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OpenAI users

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Information manipulation actors in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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ChatGPT users

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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OpenAI

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Image generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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People participating in U.S. AI policy debates

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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General public of the United Statese

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Communities debating AI data center development

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Image generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1580
    3 Reports

    PRC-Linked Accounts Reportedly Used ChatGPT in Covert Campaigns Targeting U.S. AI Policy Debates

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