OpenAI also banned a range of ChatGPT accounts that used its models to generate short comments in English criticizing Chinese dissident Cai Xia and long-form news articles in Spanish focusing on U.S. social and political divisions, particularly in the lead-up to the 2024 APEC Forum in Peru.

OpenAI has removed accounts of users from China and North Korea who the artificial intelligence company believes were using its technology for malicious purposes including surveillance and opinion-influence operations,

The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.

OpenAI spotted and disrupted two uses of its AI tools as part of broader Chinese influence campaigns, including one designed to spread Spanish-language anti-American disinformation, the company said.