OpenAI flags China-linked influence ops targeting Japan’s Takaichi

Nikkei Asia: After ChatGPT refused to execute the prompt, the account used DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen to structure a draft plan — including amplifying negative comments and using fake email accounts posing as foreign residents to send complaints against Takaichi to Japanese politicians — and then asked ChatGPT to refine it, according to a report titled “Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI” released by OpenAI on Monday…