# 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.

- Conviction: 36 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-12T14:07:13.413Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/trends/ai-industrialized-influence-operations
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-10-11: 38
- 2026-10-12: 36

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] OpenAI says Russian and Iranian networks used ChatGPT to run fake journalists and a Latin American think tank (2026-10-10): 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.