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 alarm. Fake Western authors published on newspaper headlines. At least 100 articles in favor of Tehran, against Israel and Washington
U.S.A. Research and Artificial Intelligence Technology announced that it had foiled two information impact campaigns linked to Russia and Iran, using the CHAT Platform to create fake press identities and secretly promote political messages, including anti-Ukraine propaganda.
An OpenAI report reconstructs: Russian service agents have managed to provoke reactions from politicians from different countries, helping to exacerbate the historical tensions between Ukraine and Poland. Operators in Iran have published about 100 false articles \\'pacifistÂ" in a dozen newspapers, creating 7 identities of fake and non-existent journalists but active on social media. And getting effects in the real world
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