OpenAI disrupts a new Russian influence campaign built on a fake think tank
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that were used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a fake think tank based in Israel. The operation, which appears to have reached small audiences, involved generating social media posts to promote IBI articles, many of which were plagiarized or misattributed. The IBI website also featured a 'sovereignty index' that cast Russia favorably. This is the first time OpenAI has disrupted a Russia-linked influence operation with such elaborate construction.
This is the first time we have disrupted an influence operation tied to Russia that went to such elaborate lengths.
- trueno
i think a lot of people don't realize how far not just nation-states are willing to go, but bajillionaire entities are willing to go to control any given narrative now that AI is so accessible. ig comments, tiktok comments, reddit comments, hn comments, on seemingly innocuous and harmless content, just out there trying to look real and game the perception. these entities are well aware that people go to comments and discussion for "the real tea" and yeah. marketing behemoths offer "social media engagement" packages to entities like disney to push trailer hype. flood youtube and other socials with fake content engagement. i remember within the first like minute disney dropped the latest tron trailer on youtube, it was absolutely flooded with "i'm not ready" "omggggg" caliber comments from seemingly real looking youtube profiles.
bring back lan parties, aol instant messenger and throw the current platforms into the sun
- GolfPopper
>Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Pull the other one. It's got bells on.
- MomsAVoxell
We should be tracking and identifying all covert influence campaigns, from all states - not just Russia - and collecting a registry of these efforts for wide public distribution.
We should also be tracking and identifying all covert influence campaigns of our own government, too, while we’re at it.
In fact, all covert influence, everywhere, should be identified and made overt.
It is the covert nature of the influence that is the most insidious aspect, incompatible with free and open society.
So yeah, let’s start at home by disassembling the national security apparatus which allows covert influence to be wielded against The People. After all, anything less than full exposure is hypocrisy.
More leaks now!
Perhaps there will be an application of LLM’s towards identifying covert influence, which we can apply to a corpus and identify its true authorship. This would be pretty useful for a lot of things, eh ..
- tuesdaynight
People would be uncomfortable if the truth about how much influence nation-states have in the online discourse nowadays was really exposed. I don't mean only bots, but how many political influencers are receiving money from adversaries, from all over the spectrum, without they even knowing who is paying them. American people would feel like LATAM countries, which are used to be heavily influenced by external countries.
- hackernud3s
Does it seem strange that Russia would go with Israel to astroturf credibility?