OpenAI recently banned accounts linked to Russia and Iran that used its AI to run front organizations and plant fake news. The Russian operation, the most complex front identity the company has dismantled in 2.5 years, used a fake persona named 'Mia Clark' to manage a Latin American think tank with unwitting local staff. In a separate action, OpenAI disrupted an Iranian operation that used seven fake journalist personas to place roughly 100 articles critical of the U.S. war against Iran in about a dozen global outlets.
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Researcher Disputes OpenAI's First Category 5 Rating of Russian AI Op
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The impact of a state-backed disinformation campaign was exaggerated by the creators of ChatGPT, according to analyst Lukasz Olejnik. He argues that OpenAI's designation of a Russian network as a "Category 5" threat fails its own internal framework because the propaganda primarily circulated within pro-Kremlin bubbles. Olejnik notes that a campaign targeting Peruvian schools only reached a local Polish portal and one pro-Russian weekly, and the quoted European Parliament member was a political ally of the article's author, who is currently on trial for spying for Russia.
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