Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and political debates.

OpenAI banned China-linked accounts using ChatGPT for US influence campaigns, revealing AI's growing role in state-sponsored propaganda efforts.

OpenAI's threat report reveals Chinese-linked ChatGPT accounts generated anti-data center content to undermine US AI competitiveness in a campaign called