Chinese official accidentally reveals secret operation to ChatGPT: Smear campaign against Japan PM, impersonating US officials

An eleborate China government secret has been accidentally revealed after a Chinese law enforcement official tried to use ChatGPT to plan a smear campaign against the Japanese PM. OpenAI said they banned the account after they found out China’s secret strategy for covert influence operations and transnational repression. The Chinese official was using ChatGPT to keep track of their covert network and revealed that they were impersonating US immigration officials to scare Chinese nationals based in the US.

Chinese operators apparently disguised themselves as US immigration officials to warn a US-based Chinese dissident; they also tried to forge documents from a US country court to get a Chinese dissident’s social media account taken down, the OpenAI report said.