OpenAI report alleges Chinese entities weaponizing ChatGPT for “authoritarian abuses” OpenAI has publicly accused China-based actors, some with alleged government links, of using ChatGPT for “authoritarian abuses,” including cyber espionage and developing social control tools. The specific malicious activities involved creating proposals for social media monitoring systems and crafting phishing emails to target organizations like Taiwan’s semiconductor industry and U.S. academic institutions. Despite ChatGPT’s official ban in China, users circumvented the block using VPNs to access the platform for these state-aligned misuse operations. As part of its security efforts, OpenAI claims to have disrupted over 40 malicious networks, which also included actors…