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Applied AI·August 6, 2026·1 min read

OpenAI says it stopped an Asian scam campaign hijacking ChatGPT to lure in victims

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Attackers are now treating ChatGPT accounts as infrastructure for scams, not just a tool to write phishing emails. If you expose assistants to end users, assume your abuse surface includes account marketplaces and automated campaigns—instrument and rate-limit accordingly.

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Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population

If your product or deployment playbook assumes uniform AI sentiment across markets, you’re flying blind—China’s framing of AI as a practical tool with narrower disruption makes adoption politics very different from the U.S. For operators, that means localizing not just language and features, but also the narrative around job impact, control, and upside.