{"id":1042008,"date":"2026-10-09T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042008"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:18:19","slug":"openai-says-iran-russia-influence-ops-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/openai-says-iran-russia-influence-ops-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says Iran, Russia influence ops busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI on Thursday said it shut down two influence operations &#8212; from Russia and Iran &#8212; that used ChatGPT to push fake journalist personas and run a &#8220;think-tank&#8221; to covertly peddle anti-Ukraine propaganda. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s report is the latest illustration of how state actors can easily exploit widely available AI tools to peddle sophisticated propaganda against adversaries on a mass scale. <\/p>\n<p>The American AI giant said it banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that originated in Russia and Iran and were used to support &#8220;false front&#8221; entities for geopolitical and conflict-related messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI on Thursday said it shut down two influence operations &#8212; from Russia and Iran &#8212; that used ChatGPT to push fake journalist personas and run a &#8220;think-tank&#8221; to covertly peddle anti-Ukraine propaganda. OpenAI&#8217;s report is the latest illustration of how state actors can easily exploit widely available AI tools to peddle sophisticated propaganda against adversaries on a mass scale. The American AI giant said it banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that originated in Russia and Iran and were used to support &#8220;false front&#8221; entities for geopolitical and conflict-related messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042036,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042008\/revisions\/1042036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}