OpenAI's November 2025 report says a ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement attempted in mid-October 2025 to plan smear campaigns against Japan's Sanae Takaichi and other Chinese Communist Party critics. When ChatGPT refused, the user reportedly used other models; OpenAI found evidence of coordinated hashtags spreading in small quantities across X, Pixiv and Blogspot beginning late October 2025, and documented wider harassment tactics.
Key Points
- 1Reported user planned coordinated smear campaigns against Sanae Takaichi using fake accounts and hashtags
- 2OpenAI identified transnational repression tactics, including psychological pressure, hacking, obituaries, and mass reporting
- 3Practitioners must monitor cross-platform signals, hashtags, and fake-account patterns to mitigate coordinated influence
Scoring Rationale
Official OpenAI report with concrete abuse examples increases urgency, limited novelty beyond documented influence-op patterns.
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