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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 10, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI says Russian and Iranian networks used ChatGPT to run fake journalists and a Latin American think tank
OpenAI gave Russia's "Dark Clark" operation a severity rating of 5 on its 6-point scale, the first time its reports have used that category, and said Iran's "Bogus Bylines" placed nearly 100 articles.
OpenAI says it shut down two influence operations, one attributed to Russia and one to Iran. According to the company, both used ChatGPT and other AI tools to build fake journalist personas and covert think tanks, and both got content into…
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AI-Industrialized State Influence Operations
State influence campaigns will keep using generative AI to maintain durable fake institutions in under-moderated regions, while detection power concentrates in the private labs that monitor their own users.
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