Ben Nimmo

openai.comDisrupting malicious uses of AIEnsuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.

25 Aug

New from OpenAI: We recently banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that were being used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a self-described “expert community” based in Israel. For more on the investigation and the wider operation: openai.com/index/disrup...

OUT TODAY: new threat report from OpenAI’s investigators, with disruptions of: Surveillance; Covert influence ops; Deceptive employment scheme; Cyber activity; Scams. openai.com/global-affai...

3) Two scam centres in Cambodia, one focusing on romance scams, the other on task scams. We found one through proactive investigation. H/t Meta for alerting us to the other.

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There’s lots more meat in the report. For the full read, see cdn.openai.com/threat-intel...

openai.comDisrupting malicious uses of AIEnsuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.

OUT TODAY: new threat report from OpenAI’s investigators, with disruptions of: Surveillance; Covert influence ops; Deceptive employment scheme; Cyber activity; Scams. openai.com/global-affai...

There’s a lot to dig into here. Highlights: 1) Likely China-origin surveillance operation we dubbed “Peer Review”, using our model to modify and debug code for a social media monitoring tool apparently run off an open-source AI model.

2) Also likely China-origin covert IO we called “Sponsored Discontent”. It generated tweets criticizing dissident Cai Xia, but also translated articles from Chinese to Spanish and landed them in news outlets in LATAM and Spain. One of the articles was listed as “sponsored”.

openai.comDisrupting malicious uses of AIEnsuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.

OUT TODAY: new threat report from OpenAI’s investigators, with disruptions of: Surveillance; Covert influence ops; Deceptive employment scheme; Cyber activity; Scams. openai.com/global-affai...