OpenAI banned accounts using AI to fake job applicants and land remote roles
OpenAI disclosed in a February 2025 threat report that it banned dozens of accounts tied to a deceptive employment scheme. The accounts used its models to generate fake résumés, fake references, and real-time interview answers to land remote jobs at Western companies. The tactics match what Microsoft and Google previously attributed to North Korean IT-worker fraud, though OpenAI says it cannot confirm the actors' locations or nationalities. Once hired, they kept using the models for coding tasks and to invent cover stories for skipping video calls.
Why it matters: OpenAI's threat report names dozens of banned accounts that used its models to fake resumes, invent references, answer live in interviews and hide their identities on the job.