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Foreign governments are using ChatGPT to influence voters, report finds


Open AI recently deactivated a series of Iranian government accounts that allegedly used Chat GPT to promote false content about the U.S. presidential election on social media. Here’s why those efforts are targeting Latino voters in particular.

According to a statement from OpenAI, the company deactivated a series of Iranian government accounts that allegedly used ChatGPT to promote false content about the U.S. presidential election on social media. In addition, OpenAI reported that the Storm-2035 covert operation also generated false content in Spanish and English "about politics in Venezuela (and) the rights of Latino communities in the United States," among other topics. A report by the cybersecurity firm Symantec revealed that, when Russia interfered with the election in 2016, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) operation used "trolls" to promote propaganda on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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