Chinese bad actors are using ChatGPT for malicious purposes – generating social media posts to sow political division across the US and seeking information on military technology, OpenAI said.

An organized China-linked operation, in one such incident dubbed “Uncle Spam,” used ChatGPT to generate social media posts that were supportive and critical of contentious topics related to US politics – and then posted both versions of the comments from separate accounts, the company said in a report released Thursday.

“This appears likely designed to exploit existing political divisions rather than to promote a specific ideological stance,” OpenAI wrote in the report, describing what is known as an influence operation. 3

OpenAI said it followed Meta’s lead to disrupt this operation, after t

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