OpenAI Bans Russian Operators for Mass-Producing Pro-Moscow AI Slop
OpenAI said the accounts generated posts, built a fake academic website and promoted a Russia-friendly index while hiding their origins.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI banned a cluster of Russia-linked ChatGPT accounts used to support a covert online influence campaign, discovering the operation after investigating AI-generated social media posts directing users to a fake think tank.
- Operating from Russia despite bans, the actors used VPNs to disguise their location while promoting the International Burke Institute, which featured a "sovereignty index" that praised Russia and denigrated Western countries.
- OpenAI found that 34 of 36 articles on the IBI website were copied from the internet, and the operators used Russian prompts to generate English content while unsuccessfully attempting to hide linguistic clues.
- Although the campaign reached limited audiences, OpenAI added the "significance of the operation lies less in the audience it reached, however, than in the infrastructure it had built," illustrating how AI usage can lead to exposure.
- Following past disruptions of Russia-linked networks, including accounts connected to Rybar, a media company partially coordinated by the Presidential Administration, OpenAI continues to target these covert efforts to manufacture authority.
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OpenAI blocked a group of ChatGPT accounts that used the platform for a hidden political campaign, which promoted a fairy analytical institute and pro-Russian narrations.
Attackers sought to manipulate public opinion in the West. OpenAI discovered and blocked a group of ChatGPT accounts from Russia, which were used to promote a pseudo-analytics institute based in Israel and spread Kremlin narratives. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing an OpenAI report. How did the criminal network operate? Russian operators used ChatGPT via a VPN, issuing prompts in Russian. They instructed the neural network to generate co…
OpenAI announced that it blocked a group of ChatGPT accounts from Russia, after it discovered that they were being used in an online operation to influence and spread disformation, CNBC broadcasts.
OpenAI Bans Russian Operators for Mass-Producing Pro-Moscow AI Slop
Russian operatives turned to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to flood social media with commentary pushing a fabricated Israeli think tank. The company caught on. It banned the accounts. But the episode lays bare a stubborn truth about influence campaigns in the age of generative AI. They scale fast. They leave fingerprints. And they often collapse under their own clumsiness. OpenAI detailed the disruption in a blog post published Tuesday. The accounts origina…
Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
ChatGPT may spew a lot of digital garbage onto the internet, but the same bots that output the trash can be used to stop it. The company draws the line at influence operations that want to slop in the name of love . . . of mother Russia. OpenAI said in a Tuesday blog post that it had identified a cluster of accounts originating from Russia using ChatGPT to produce social media posts and comments directing internet denizens to what appears to be …
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