OpenAI identified and terminated five accounts engaging in covert influence operations in the last three months, marking a first for the company as they removed Russian, Chinese, and Israeli accounts used in political influence operations. According to a new report from the platform's threat detection team, the terminated accounts included those behind a Russian Telegram operation dubbed "Bad Grammar" and those facilitating Israeli company STOIC, which used OpenAI models to generate articles and comments praising Israel's current military siege posted across Meta platforms, X, and more. OpenAI stated the covert actors used tools for tasks such as generating short comments and longer articles in a range of languages, making up names and bios for social media accounts, conducting open-source research, debugging simple code, and translating and proofreading texts. In February, OpenAI announced it had terminated several "foreign bad actor" accounts found engaging in similarly suspicious behavior, in collaboration with Microsoft Threat Intelligence.