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.
weakening · confidence 36 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 10, 2026 · updated October 12, 2026
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Now 36 · -2 since Oct 11 · ranged 36 to 38
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- Oct 10Strengthened +4
OpenAI says Russia's 'Dark Clark' network used ChatGPT to run fake journalists and a Latin American think tank, and rated it 5 on its 6-point severity scale, the first use of that category. The fake think tank is the kind of durable institution in an under-moderated region that this thesis describes.
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Supporting · October 10, 2026
OpenAI says Russian and Iranian networks used ChatGPT to run fake journalists and a Latin American think tank
OpenAI says Russia's 'Dark Clark' network used ChatGPT to run fake journalists and a Latin American think tank, and rated it 5 on its 6-point severity scale, the first use of that category. The fake think tank is the kind of durable institution in an under-moderated region that this thesis describes.
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