OpenAI takes down Covert Operations! (Jun 5th, 2025)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-says-significant-number-of-recent-chatgpt-misuses-likely-came-from-china-765503f2

“targeted many different countries and topics, even including a strategy game. Some of them combined elements of influence operations, social engineering, surveillance. And they did work across multiple different platforms and websites”

Hopefully they took down some of the bots in this community with it!

For more context without a paywall:

https://openai.com/global-affairs/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-june-2025/

Banning those guys sure showed them who’s boss! Sure, they’re harder to track now, but now they have to sign up again! Ha.

hopefully some of them get taken down by https://www.operation-endgame.com/