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OpenAI disrupted a Russian covert influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts promoting a fake institute, involving VPN usage and content copying to disguise origins.
Leaked documents reveal Russia's Project 2026, run by the Social Design Agency, to create fake reference platforms like a German Wikipedia clone to contaminate AI training data and search indices, aiming to embed Russian narratives into AI responses.
OpenAI reports two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that were used in covert influence operations targeting US AI debates, including narratives about data center energy costs and tariffs.
OpenAI disclosed the disruption of a covert Iranian influence operation (Storm-2035) that used ChatGPT accounts to generate political content targeting the 2024 U.S. election and other topics across social media and fake news websites. The operation achieved minimal audience engagement and was identified through collaboration with Microsoft's threat intelligence.
OpenAI researchers analyze how language models could be misused for disinformation campaigns and influence operations, proposing mitigation strategies across four stages of the attack pipeline: model existence, access, content dissemination, and user impact.