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OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2024-08-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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OpenAI identified and banned accounts tied to Storm-2035, an Iran-backed influence operation that used ChatGPT to generate long-form articles and short social comments across multiple websites and social media to push fabricated news about the US presidential race and other geopolitical topics; five domains were named, activity dates back to 2022, and OpenAI assessed the campaign had low engagement and limited impact.

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