Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop

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OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots

ChatGPT may spew a lot of digital garbage onto the internet, but the same bots that output the trash can be used to stop it. The company draws the line at influence operations that want to slop in the name of love . . . of mother Russia.

OpenAI said in a Tuesday blog post that it had identified a cluster of accounts originating from Russia using ChatGPT to produce social media posts and comments directing internet denizens to what appears to be a fake Israeli think tank critical of the west and supportive of Russia.

“What began as an investigation into AI-generated social media posts led us to a much broader influence operation,” OpenAI said in its report on the ban of the accounts and what it had...

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