OpenAI has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes were operating from China after finding they used the platform to run covert influence campaigns aimed at US tech and policy debates, including one effort that produced cartoons blaming AI data centres for rising household electricity bills.

The first cluster, dubbed "Data Center Bandwagon", generated social media comments and comic strips tying AI data centres to higher electricity costs. According to OpenAI, operators prompted ChatGPT in Simplified Chinese via VPNs while posing as Americans from varied........

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