OpenAI cracks down on Iranian operation fabricating fake news with ChatGPT

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OpenAI has banned accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation using ChatGPT to generate content focused on multiple topics, including the US presidential campaign. This comes days after both Google and Microsoft issued warnings against Iran targeting US elections.
In a blog post, OpenAI said that we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts generating content for a covert Iranian influence operation identified as Storm-2035. “We have banned these accounts from using our services, and we continue to monitor for any further attempts to violate our policies,” said OpenAI in a blog post.
The operation used ChatGPT to generate content focused on several topics, which it then shared via social media accounts and websites."Our investigation revealed that this operation used ChatGPT for two purposes: generating long-form articles and shorter social media comments,” said OpenAI.
The published articles were on U.S. politics and global events, carried on five websites that posed as both progressive and conservative news outlets. The second workstream created short comments in English and Spanish, which were posted on social media.
The operation generated content about several topics: mainly, the conflict in Gaza, Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games, and the US presidential election—and to a lesser extent politics in Venezuela, the rights of Latinx communities in the U.S. (both in Spanish and English), and Scottish independence, said OpenAI.
“OpenAI remains dedicated to uncovering and mitigating this type of abuse at scale by partnering with industry, civil society, and government, and by harnessing the power of generative AI to be a force multiplier in our work. We will continue to publish findings like these to promote information-sharing and best practices,” said the company behind ChatGPT.