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Covert AI Influence Operations Linked to Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, OpenAI Reports
- Occurred
- May 30, 2024
- Published
- Sep 4, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In a report released by OpenAI, the company described how its generative AI tools were misused by state actors and private companies in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel to conduct covert influence campaigns aimed at manipulating public opinion and geopolitical narratives.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Zeno Zeno
- Spamouflage
- Russian government
- Israeli government
- Iranian government
- International Union of Virtual Media
- Doppelganger
- Chinese government
Harmed parties
- United States
- Ukraine
- Social media users
- Moldova
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- General public
- Estonia
- Critics of the Chinese government
- Epistemic integrity
- General public of the United States
- General public of the European Union
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- Democratic integrity
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: OpenAI report details misuse of generative AI tools by state actors for covert influence operations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8