ChatGPT’s Story Post Raises New Questions On Crypto Oversight

In an ecosystem where every signal can tip the market, an Instagram story is enough to sow chaos. On May 8, the official ChatGPT account posted a link to a Pump.fun contract, a platform known for hosting ephemeral and highly speculative tokens. As a result, the effect was immediate: hacking suspicions, doubts about the intention, mistrust of official channels. When the most influential AI of the moment seems to point to a dubious project, trust cracks and questions multiply.

A Pump.fun contract shared from the official ChatGPT account

On May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM (Paris time), CoinMarketCap issued a brief alert on the X platform :

The official ChatGPT Instagram account posted a pump(.)fun contract address in its stories. The token in question was launched about an hour before the post.

This message, sober and direct, states that the official ChatGPT account (belonging to OpenAI) relayed in its Instagram story a contract from the Pump.fun platform, just about an hour after the launch of the concerned token. No official OpenAI statement has, for now, clarified this unexpected publication.

The temporal coincidence—story broadcast and recent token creation—immediately caught attention. Several objective points are to be noted at this stage:

• The message was broadcast via the official ChatGPT Instagram account, a recognized public channel ;
• The mentioned Pump.fun token is said to have been created about an hour before the publication ;
• The crypto platform Pump.fun allows easy creation of tokens without quality control or technical audits ;
• At this stage, no signal makes it possible to know whether the publication was intentional, automated, hacked, or fraudulent ;
• No official reaction from OpenAI or Meta (Instagram) has been recorded at the time of writing.

Faced with this silence, the crypto community wonders. Internal leak, poorly controlled test, diverted access : the absence of denial as well as confirmation casts a shadow on the real intentions behind this story. Above all, it highlights the systemic risks caused today by the amplification of unchecked content on platforms with a wide audience.

Hacking, manipulation, or simple error : several scenarios on the table

For now, no clarification message has been published by OpenAI or by the ChatGPT teams. No official removal of the story has been mentioned by CoinMarketCap. The lack of communication fuels speculation, in a context where precedents abound.

In several similar cases, high-authority accounts have been hijacked to promote scams or worthless tokens. However, nothing currently confirms that a hack did take place. Hypotheses range from security failure to an unintentional post via a third-party tool.

If it is not hacking, then the question of editorial control arises. Is it possible that a third-party team had access to the account? Or that internal tests were poorly supervised? This uncertainty fuels distrust. Especially since the Pump.fun crypto platform is, itself, controversial. An instant memecoin creation tool, it is often criticized for its lack of transparency and its potential for rapid market manipulation.