OpenAI users in Russia, Iran used models to push political agenda online, in media
OpenAI said the campaigns used fake journalist personas and a covert think tank to place nearly 100 articles in small outlets and trigger fact checks.
- On Thursday, OpenAI disclosed it shut down two influence operations from Russia and Iran that used ChatGPT to create fake journalist personas and covert think tanks, successfully planting roughly 100 articles across mainstream news outlets.
- The Russia-linked 'Dark Clark' cluster operated through the Social Research Center , a fabricated think tank led by the fake AI persona Mia Clark, to seed propaganda across Latin American media and politics.
- Fabricated content included a March TikTok video falsely claiming Ecuador recruited citizens for Ukraine and a May fake audio clip alleging Bolivian water shutoffs, both prompting official government denials from regional authorities.
- OpenAI rated the Russian campaign a 5 and the Iranian campaign a 4 on its 1-6 impact scale, indicating both significantly exceeded typical influence operations in breaking through to mainstream audiences.
- The SRC reportedly employed local staff in Latin America unaware of Russian affiliation, while operators showed particular interest in Politology, a successor to the Wagner Group formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models and fake journalistic identities were allegedly used by individuals operating from Iran to promote articles critical of the US war on Iran to US media outlets. OpenAI revealed the case on Thursday, highlighting the growing role of artificial intelligence in influence operations accompanying the US and Israel’s war on Iran. Nearly 100 articles by seven fake journalists According to a blog post by OpenAI, ab…
OpenAI announced that about 100 articles with “pro-Iranian” content were published in at least 20 American media outlets. The influence campaign was implemented using ChatGPT by people in Iran. The post Iran infiltrated the US – Using ChatGPT, it filled American media outlets with false articles appeared first on in.gr.
Iranian actors used OpenAI's models to create fake journalist profiles and use them to publish anti-American articles in numerous Western media outlets, according to a report published by the company on Thursday, CNN reported.
Iran and Russia used ChatGPT for propaganda by ‘fake journalists’, OpenAI says
The American tech giant said it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that had been using ChatGPT models to generate content and fake journalist personas to spread false narratives about the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and sow division.
OpenAI, which is developing the ChatGPT neural network, published a report on the Russian influence operation "Da...
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