United States: The artificial intelligence company OpenAI has declared that it has stopped secret influence operations coming from Iran, China, Russia, and Israel.
“Deceptive attempts to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes without revealing the true identity or intentions of the actors behind them” are what the creators of ChatGPT said they had discovered in five campaigns.
The ads created text and photos using OpenAI’s models, which were then shared on social media sites including Instagram, X, and Telegram. According to OpenAI, in certain instances, the campaigns took advantage of the tools to create content that had “fewer language errors than would have been possible for human operators.”
According to Open AI, accounts linked to four operations were terminated: an Israeli operation named Zero Zeno; an Iranian network called International Union of Virtual Media; a Chinese effort called Spamouflage; and two Russian operations named Bad Grammer and Doppelganger.
As per the OpenAI, content about the war in Ukraine was mostly produced by Doppelganger and Bad Grammar. This content included narratives that painted Ukraine, the US, NATO, and the EU in a poor light.
The company said that, Spamouflage produced text in Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean that exposed mistreatment of Native Americans and attacked well-known Beijing critics, such as actor and Tibet activist Richard Gere and dissident Cai Xia.
Following OpenAI, Zero Zeno targeted the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees as well as “radical Islamists” in Canada, while International Union of Virtual Media produced and translated articles criticizing the US and Israel.
The operations “do not appear to have benefited from meaningfully increased audience engagement or reach as a result of our services,” the firm stated, in spite of the efforts to influence public conversation.
In accordance with OpenAI, Zero Zeno targeted the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees as well as “radical Islamists” in Canada, while International Union of Virtual Media produced and translated articles criticizing the US and Israel.
The operations “do not appear to have benefited from meaningfully increased audience engagement or reach as a result of our services,” the firm stated, despite the efforts to influence public conversation.
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