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OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media
OpenAI dismantled two state-backed influence operations using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to spread disinformation in Western media. Russia's 'Dark Clark' network deployed fake journalist personas and a fraudulent Latin American think tank to plant propaganda harming Ukraine's reputation and destabilize regional politics; Iran's campaign created at least seven false journalist identities to place dozens of articles in international outlets. Both operations achieved unusual success, rated 5 and 4 respectively on OpenAI's impact scale, generating fact-checks and official denials from governments and media organizations.
Why it matters: Practitioners monitoring threat actors and disinformation campaigns should track how nation states weaponize large language models to scale influence operations with synthetic personas and fabricated content that bypass traditional detection; media organizations and fact-checkers require new detection methods to identify AI-generated narratives embedded in legitimate publications.
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OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media
OpenAI dismantled two state-backed influence operations using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to spread disinformation in Western media. Russia's 'Dark Clark' network deployed fake journalist personas and a fraudulent Latin American think tank to plant propaganda harming Ukraine's reputation and destabilize regional politics; Iran's campaign created at least seven false journalist identities to place dozens of articles in international outlets. Both operations achieved unusual success, rated 5 and 4 respectively on OpenAI's impact scale, generating fact-checks and official denials from governments and media organizations.
Why it matters: Practitioners monitoring threat actors and disinformation campaigns should track how nation states weaponize large language models to scale influence operations with synthetic personas and fabricated content that bypass traditional detection; media organizations and fact-checkers require new detection methods to identify AI-generated narratives embedded in legitimate publications.
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