While AI technology can facilitate malicious activities, experts emphasize its potential to detect and prevent such behaviors.

This move reflects OpenAI's ongoing commitment to ethical usage of its technology, particularly in politically sensitive contexts.

OpenAI's findings also highlighted a separate campaign from Cambodia that involved using AI in a fraud scheme targeting online dating victims.

OpenAI has taken significant action by banning several accounts linked to a Chinese surveillance tool designed to monitor anti-China protests in Western countries.

As OpenAI's influence grows, concerns about the misuse of its AI technology by authoritarian regimes have intensified.

Another cluster linked to North Korea was found to be creating fraudulent resumes to secure jobs at Western companies.

OpenAI utilized its own AI tools to detect these malicious activities but has not disclosed the number of accounts banned or the timeframe of these actions.

Experts warn that such AI tools could be weaponized against dissidents, threatening privacy and political freedoms globally.

The report underscores the urgent need for increased scrutiny and regulation of AI technologies to prevent misuse by state actors.

This surveillance campaign, named 'Peer Review', was identified after researchers discovered that a developer used OpenAI's technology to debug the spyware's code.

The Chinese surveillance tool is based on Meta's open-source Llama model, which was adapted to analyze real-time data from social media.

The Peer Review operation generated detailed reports on protests and aimed to analyze public sentiment across various platforms.