OpenAI Disrupts Influence Operations Linked to China, Russia, and Others

OpenAI announced that it has disrupted five influence operations from four countries using its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public opinion and shape political outcomes across the internet. The company said on May 30 that these covert influence operations were from Russia, China, Iran, and Israel. Actors behind these operations used OpenAI tools to generate comments, produce articles, or create fake names or bios for social media accounts over the last three months. The report found that the content pushed by these operations targets multiple ongoing issues, including criticisms of the Chinese regime from Chinese dissidents and foreign governments, U.S. and European politics, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict in Gaza....