OpenAI reports disrupting 2 AI-enabled 'false front' influence operations
OpenAI reported disrupting 2 AI-enabled 'false front' influence operations — the Russia-origin 'Dark Clark', which co-opted people in Latin America to run a think tank, and the Iran-origin 'Bogus Bylines', which pitched long-form articles under 7 fake journalist personas
Why it matters
Both operations placed some content in mainstream outlets, and OpenAI said Dark Clark is Category 5 on the influence-operation Breakout Scale, the first Category 5 operation it has disrupted since it began reporting. It concluded that AI was mainly used to make old-style operations' workflows (such as drafting internal reports) easier rather than to create new techniques
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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