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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 26, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Bans Russia-Origin Accounts Running a Fake Israeli Think Tank and a Pro-Russia 'Sovereignty Index'
The operators used virtual private networks to reach ChatGPT from a blocked country and instructed the model to strip signs that the text was machine-written, and OpenAI rates the campaign category three of six on the Brookings Breakout Scale.
OpenAI disclosed a previously unreported covert influence operation it attributes to Russia-origin accounts and says it has banned. The operation centered on an entity calling itself the International Burke Institute, a self-described exper…
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AI-Assisted Influence Operations Become Routine
State-linked information operations keep industrializing content production with commercial language models and adapting specifically to defeat AI-detection heuristics, so provider takedown reports become a recurring and contested source of attribution that platforms and regulators cannot independently verify.
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