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Jonathan Benton

Iran and Russia used ChatGPT for propaganda by ‘fake journalists’, OpenAI says

OpenAI revealed on Thursday it had shut down two influence operations — from Russia and Iran — that used ChatGPT to push fake journalist personas and run a "think-tank" to covertly spread anti-Ukraine propaganda and foster division in the US and Israel over the war in Iran.

The report is the latest example of how state actors could exploit widely available AI tools to produce and disseminate sophisticated propaganda against adversaries on a mass scale.

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