ai and ML
OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots
ChatGPT may spew a lot of digital garbage onto the internet, but the same bots that output the trash can be used to stop it. The company draws the line at influence operations that want to slop in the name of love . . . of mother Russia. OpenAI said in a Tuesday blog post that it had identified a cluster of accounts originating from Russia using ChatGPT to produce social media posts and comments directing internet denizens to what appears to be a fake Israeli think tank critical of the west and supportive of Russia. “What began as an investigation into AI-generated social media posts led us to a much broader influence operation,” OpenAI said in its report on the ban of the accounts and what it had found. That said, it appears the Russian efforts were still largely ineffective.
“Although the campaign appears to have reached relatively small audiences, its elaborate construction distinguishes it from other Russia-linked influence operations we have disrupted,” the company added. OpenAI further noted that it doesn’t allow access to its platforms from Russia, but it's easy to subvert that ban with a VPN account.
