Misuse and incidents

OpenAI reports stopping hundreds of GPT-3 misuse actors

OpenAI reported detecting and stopping hundreds of actors attempting to misuse GPT-3 for scams, spam, radicalization, and other harmful activity, and described operational monitoring and enforcement lessons.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM36confidence 86/100

Why it moved the index

The provider documented real misuse attempts and completed enforcement against hundreds of actors, demonstrating an operational control layer rather than a proposed safeguard. Provider-only reporting and unspecified exact GPT-3 tiers constrain confidence and magnitude.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 36 · confidence 86

    New March 2022 operational model-misuse enforcement evidence absent from the durable corpus; no exact GPT-3 tier is invented.

    12 Aug 2026