(Reuters)- OpenAI disabled user accounts from China and North Korea that, according to the artificial intelligence company, would be using their technology for harmful purposes, including spying and influence operations, said the owner of ChatgPT, this Friday fair.
Activities are forms of authoritarian regimes try to use IA against the United States and their own people, OpenAi said in a report, adding that he used AI tools to detect actions.
The company did not report how many accounts were banned or when the deactivations occurred.
In one case, users caused ChatgPT to generate Spanish news articles that defamed the United States. The texts were published by Latin America news sites with attribution to a Chinese company.
In a second episode, agents potentially linked to North Korea used Chatbot to generate resumes and profiles for fictitious candidates, with the aim of getting fraudulent jobs in western companies.
Another set of ChatgPT accounts, with suspicion of bonding with a financial fraud operation in Cambodia, used OpenAI technology to translate and generate comments on social media and communication platforms, including X and Facebook.
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The US government expressed concern about the alleged use of artificial intelligence by China against the US population to spread misinformation and impair the security of the United States and its allies.
OpenAi’s chatgpt is the most popular AI chatbot today and has over 400 million weekly active users.
