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OpenAI Identifies and Terminates Foreign Influence Campaigns from Russia and China Using AI Models

May 30, 2024, 05:15 PM

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it has identified and terminated several foreign influence campaigns utilizing its AI models. These campaigns, originating from countries including Russia and China, exploited OpenAI's tools to generate and translate content for manipulation on social media. The company reported cutting off five influence networks involved in these operations. The actors behind these influence campaigns used OpenAI models to research public social media activity, generate texts in various languages such as Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean, and debug code for managing databases and websites. Despite these activities, OpenAI has not observed any novel attacks enabled through its tools. The terminated operations include Operation Doppelganger, Operation Bad Grammar, Operation Spamouflage, and Operation IUVM.