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Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI's threat report describes two banned ChatGPT-account clusters running "false front" influence operations. The Russian "Dark Clark" operation ran a Latin American think tank, the Social Research Center, through unwitting staff and was rated Breakout Scale Category 5, OpenAI's first. The Iranian "Bogus Bylines" operation placed almost 100 articles under seven fake journalist bylines (Category 4) and inflated its own impact metrics.

TL;DR OpenAI details two banned Russian and Iranian influence operations that used ChatGPT to run fake think tanks and journalist personas, rated Breakout Scale 5 and 4.
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Organisations named here

  • OpenAI
  • Meta
  • Blackwater
  • Brookings Institution
  • Central Bank of Bolivia
  • EPSAS
  • International Security Solutions FZE
  • Internet Research Agency
  • Iran International
  • PeaceData
  • Politology (La Compania)
  • Social Research Center
  • TVN Noticias
  • Wagner Group

Technologies named here

  • ChatGPT

Concepts named here

  • Breakout Scale
  • Covert influence operation (IO)
  • False front operation
  • Inflated impact metrics
  • Unwitting cutouts

Threat actors named here

  • Bogus Bylines
  • Dark Clark
  • Internet Research Agency
  • PeaceData
  • Politology
  • Wagner Group

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