OpenAI catches Russian, Iranian ops planting AI-generated fake news

openai exposed a russian influence operation, 'dark clark', which spread disinformation across latin america to discredit ukraine and destabilize local politics. the operation controlled a think tank through a fictitious persona and used fabricated audio files and documents to trigger fact-checks and official denials in ecuador and peru. openai rates it category 5 out of 6 on the breakout scale. a separate iranian operation, 'bogus bylines', used seven fake journalists to place nearly 100 articles about the us-iran conflict in online outlets worldwide. both operations used ai mainly for internal reporting and to adapt propaganda to different languages.