# clm_5D8958E49DFA

subject: OpenAI (/record/openai.md)  
predicate: incident  
value: PRC-linked accounts  
valid_from: 2025-10-01  
valid_to: null  
published: 2025-10-01  
recorded: 2026-11-03  
confidence: 0.70  
status: valid  
assertable: true  
superseded_by: null  
last_updated: 2026-11-04  
cite: AsOf. "OpenAI incident: PRC-linked accounts", as of 2025-10-01. Claim clm_5D8958E49DFA, https://asof.is/claim/clm_5D8958E49DFA, accessed 2026-11-09. Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-prc-linked-abuse.  
checked: 2026-11-04 · its source page states the value and the date (its publisher's feed entry for the page)  

> OpenAI banned PRC-linked accounts using AI to support surveillance-related planning, targeted profiling, and research on critics and other individuals

What https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-prc-linked-abuse says, word for word.

## Sources

- https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-prc-linked-abuse (primary, OpenAI, published 2025-10-01)

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