OpenAI Says ChatGPT Refused to Help Chinese Influence Operations

OpenAI said its ChatGPT AI service refused to assist an individual associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit the Japanese prime minister.

In its latest update on disrupting malicious uses of artificial intelligence, the San Francisco-based startup detailed requests by the user that included editing status reports on a wider net of covert influence operations against domestic and foreign adversaries. OpenAI interpreted the evidence it gathered as indicative of a “large-scale, resource-intensive and sustained” effort by Chinese law enforcement to suppress dissent.

“I’m not familiar with what you mentioned and do not see any basis ...