# 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.

- Conviction: 36 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-08-28T06:28:38.436Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/trends/ai-enabled-influence-operations
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Russia / Ukraine, China, Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-08-27: 38
- 2026-08-28: 36

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] OpenAI Bans Russia-Origin Accounts Running a Fake Israeli Think Tank and a Pro-Russia 'Sovereignty Index' (2026-08-26): OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts that used VPNs to reach ChatGPT from a blocked country to run a fake Israeli think tank and a pro-Russia 'Sovereignty Index,' explicitly instructing the model to strip machine-written tells, and rated the campaign category three of six on Brookings' Breakout Scale. Prompting specifically to defeat AI-detection heuristics is the adaptation step the thesis predicts, and the provider's own scale rating is again the only attribution outsiders can check.