OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from Southeast Asia and operating from the city of Poipet, a region with extensive ties to scam compounds and human trafficking in the past. "The operation illustrates an important reality about modern scam networks: organized criminal groups rarely restrict themselves to a single type of scam," OpenAI said. Some accounts in the network generated content that is consistent with human trafficking and forced labor associated with organized crime groups in East Asia. "The full scale of financial losses associated with the network is unknown, but based on the scammers' own communications, the operation may have interacted with hundreds of targets across multiple scam types," OpenAI said.