OpenAI Oct 2025 — Accounts linked to PRC entities sought social-media surveillance proposals
Date: 2025-10
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; overseas dissidents
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

OpenAI disrupted ChatGPT accounts that appeared linked to People's Republic of China government entities, asking the model to draft work proposals for large-scale tools to monitor social-media conversations of overseas Chinese and Western users.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):