OpenAI says China-based actors stoking opposition to AI data centres

OpenAI released a report stating that China-based accounts were using ChatGPT for covert influence operations aimed at stirring opposition to data centres in the United States. The accounts generated social media comments and images blaming data centres for rising electricity prices. A second cluster of accounts produced content on US tariffs. OpenAI found no evidence of meaningful impact. China's embassy in Washington said it opposed any groundless smears.