OpenAI banned a “cluster” of ChatGPT accounts that it claims were part of a pro-Russia operation aimed at bashing Western countries and promoting a think tank with misattributed academic research.
The company said in a blog post this week that the banned ChatGPT users used VPNs to get around its restriction on Russian users and then used its tech to create social posts promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that describes itself as an “expert community” based in Israel, but which OpenAI says is the “core” of a Russian influence operation.
