OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media

OpenAI disclosed it shut down coordinated influence operations from Russian and Iranian actors that used ChatGPT and other AI tools to create fake journalist personas and a sham think tank ("Dark Clark") to plant propaganda in mainstream and regional outlets; the Russian cluster targeted Latin America and Ukraine narratives while the Iranian operation placed dozens of articles across ~12 outlets, prompting fact-checks and official denials.