OpenAI disrupts threat actors that were using its AI models

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Accounts across Russia, China, Iran and Israel were terminated after posting ‘deceptive’ AI-generated content relating to global geopolitics. OpenAI says it has disrupted five “covert influence operations” based across the world, including in Russia and China, that were using its AI models to manipulate public opinion and influence political outcomes deceptively. The San Francisco start-up that runs the free and public AI chatbot called ChatGPT said that these internet campaigns – disrupted by OpenAI over the last three months – do not appear to have “meaningfully” increased their audience engagement or reach because of its products. These covert operations include...