OpenAI Feb 2025 — "Peer Review" Chinese surveillance social-media monitoring tool
Date: 2025-02
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; Western social-media users
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts associated with a Chinese surveillance project ("Peer Review") that used the model to generate sales pitches and debug code for an AI-driven tool monitoring Western social media for anti-PRC protests and sharing the data with PRC authorities.


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