An Iranian group used ChatGPT to create content designed to influence the US presidential election and spread misinformation online, OpenAI said on Friday. The company, which suspended the accounts in question, said its investigation showed that the group, which it called Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to create long-form articles and social media posts. The topics were wide-ranging: Issues included the US presidential election, the situation in Gaza, Israel’s participation in the Olympics and Scottish independence, the New York Times.
Although the content was then shared on websites and through social media accounts on X and Instagram, it doesn’t seem to have attracted much attention, according to OpenAI: Most social media posts had very little interaction and the web articles didn’t appear to have been shared by readers, Reuters reports. “We saw no evidence that there was any significant engagement at all from real people,” said OpenAI investigator Ben Nimmo.
The WashingtonPost Reports on two of the sites identified by OpenAI with ChatGPT-generated content: One site called Teorator, which claims to be “your ultimate destination for uncovering truths you’re not meant to know,” contained articles critical of Tim Walz. Another site called Even Politics contained articles critical of Donald Trump. (More ChatGPT stories.)
