OpenAI says it took down a malicious Russian plan to spread misinformation on ChatGPT
- OpenAI says it has disrupted a social media influence campaign that is believed to be of Russian origin
- What makes this campaign stand out is the underlying architecture, which features a "think tank" with highly questionable credibility
- The objective of the campaign was to influence Western audiences into believing Russia was superior, and that Western countries were sacrificing their sovereignty
AI tools have once again been used for bad, rather than for good, and this time it has been as part of a campaign attributed to Russia that tried to discredit Western countries supportive of Ukraine.
The threat actors used ChatGPT accounts to promote the work of an “expert community” of academics known as the International Burke Institute (IBI). The site used stolen academic works attributed to the wrong authors in an attempt to appear legitimate while also hiding the true source of its academic ‘contributions’.
The IBI was registered...
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