OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including a think tank with researchers who say they were falsely affiliated | Fortune
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including a think tank with researchers who say they were falsely affiliated | Fortune
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OpenAI bans pro-Russia ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including an Israel-based think tank using real researchers’ names
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OpenAI banned a “cluster” of ChatGPT accounts that it claims were part of a pro-Russia operation aimed at bashing Western countries and promoting a think tank with misattributed academic research.
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The company said in a
blog post
this week that the banned ChatGPT users used VPNs to get around its restriction on Russian users and then used its tech to create social posts promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that describes itself as an “expert community” based in Israel, but which OpenAI says is the “core” of a Russian influence operation.
According to OpenAI, the think tank, the website of which is still online, claims to include among its contributors notable figures like American linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky as well as American political scientist and author Francis Fuku