OpenAI recently banned several accounts that had been using ChatGPT to write sales pitches and debug code for a suspected social media surveillance tool that likely originated in China, the company said — part of a broader effort by the AI startup to police malicious uses of its powerful AI models.

OpenAI has banned several accounts from China using its AI to create sales pitches for a social media surveillance company. These accounts aimed to collect real-time data on anti-China protests for Chinese authorities,