OpenAI Uncovered A Russia-Linked Influence Campaign. Operators Used ChatGPT To Look Less Russian. | IBTimes
OpenAI Uncovered A Russia-Linked Influence Campaign. Operators Used ChatGPT To Look Less Russian. | IBTimes
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OpenAI Uncovered A Russia-Linked Influence Campaign. Operators Used ChatGPT To Look Less Russian.
The campaign promoted a purported Israe
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OpenAI Uncovered A Russia-Linked Influence Campaign. Operators Used ChatGPT To Look Less Russian.
The campaign promoted a purported Israeli think tank filled with copied academic work and a "sovereignty" index that favored Russia.
Merin Rebecca Thomas
Published
08/26/26 AT 6:01 AM EDT
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In February, OpenAI banned accounts associated with the pro-Kremlin Rybar network after finding ChatGPT had effectively served as a content farm producing posts and comments in several languages.
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has banned a cluster of Russia-linked ChatGPT accounts that were used in a covert influence campaign built around a purported Israeli think tank, copied academic work and social media posts designed to conceal the operators' Russian origins.
The accounts very likely originated in Russia and used VPNs because OpenAI does not make its models available there, the company said in a
report published Tuesday
. Operators typically prompted ChatGPT in Russian but generated mostly English-language comments for Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn, at times explicitly asking the chatbot to remove linguistic clues that could reveal where they were based.
The campaign centered on the International Burke Institute, or IBI, which described itself as an Israel-based "expert community." Its website, registered in February 2025, featured prominent academics and intellectuals and published research that gave the operation the appearance of an established institution.
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