Security News > 2025 > February > OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns

2025-02-22 05:17
OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool. The social media listening tool is said to likely originate from China and is powered by one of Meta's Llama models, with the accounts in question using the AI company's models to generate detailed descriptions and analyze documents
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