{"id":9889,"date":"2026-06-12T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:06:05","slug":"openai-bans-china-linked-chatgpt-accounts-that-amplified-us-data-center-electricity-price-backlash-used-ai-generated-cartoons-to-stoke-fears-over-u-s-data-center-energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9889","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI bans China-linked ChatGPT accounts that amplified US data center electricity price backlash \u2014 used AI-generated cartoons to stoke fears over U.S. data center energy costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong> Luke James <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 11, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOpenAI says it has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes are operating from China, and that used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/artificial-intelligence\/openai-bans-china-linked-chatgpt-accounts-that-amplified-us-data-center-electricity-price-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke James &bull; June 11, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}