Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

OpenAI recently thwarted a covert Russian influence operation that used ChatGPT accounts to promote the International Berkley Institute (IBI). Although the campaign reached a small audience, its construction was exceptionally complex, featuring a website with plagiarized academic works and a "sovereignty" index favorable to Russia. OpenAI's investigation, triggered by AI-generated social media posts, revealed how AI served as an auxiliary tool to create authority, obscure narrative sources, and ultimately led to the exposure of the entire operation.