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Chinese propaganda and social engineering operations To create messages, comments and stimulate commitment to the country and abroad. OPENAI said that he had recently disrupted four Chinese secret influence operations that used his tool to generate publications and responses on social networks on platforms such as Tiktok, Facebook, Reddit and X.
The comments generated turned around several subjects of American politics to a Taiwanese video game Where players fight the Chinese Communist Party. Chatgpt was used to create publications on social networks that have supported and criticized various hot button problems to arouse a misleading political discourse.
Ben Nimmo, principal researcher in Openai “What we see of China is an increasing range of secret operations using a growing range of tactics.” While Openai said that he had also disrupted a handful of operations, which, according to her, is from Russia, Iran and North Korea, Nimmo explained Chinese operations saying that they “targeted many countries and different subjects […] Some of them have combined elements of influence, social engineering, surveillance operations. “”
It is far from the first time it happens. In 2023, noted that the content generated by AI has been used in online influence campaigns with political motivation in many cases since 2019.
In 2024, Describing its efforts to disrupt five operations affiliated to the State through China, Iran and North Korea which used OpenAi models for malicious intention. These applications included debugging of the code, the generation of scripts and the creation of content for use in phishing campaigns.
That same year, Openai said it It was a question of using Chatgpt to create long -term political articles on the American elections which were then published on false news sites posing for conservative and progressive outlets. The operation also created comments to publish on X and Instagram via false accounts, again marrying opposite points of view.
“We have generally not seen these operations make fun of their use of AI”, Nimmo . “For these operations, better tools do not necessarily mean better results.”
This offers little comfort. As a generative AA becomes cheaper And It goes without saying that its ability to generate mass content will make influence campaigns like these easier and more affordable to build, even if their effectiveness remains unchanged.
