Security News > 2024 > August > OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo

OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian crew suspected of spreading fake news on social media sites about the upcoming US presidential campaign.

OpenAI attributed the phony posts to Storm-2035, a Tehran-backed group that Microsoft also sounded the alarm about last week as it and other Iranian groups have continued to meddle in elections - some veering toward attempts at inciting violence.

"The first workstream produced articles on US politics and global events, published on five websites that posed as both progressive and conservative news outlets," OpenAI said on Friday.

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"The majority of social media posts that we identified received few or no likes, shares, or comments," OpenAI noted.

Earlier this year, OpenAI shut down five accounts it said were being used by government-backed groups in China, Iran, Russia and North Korea to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts.

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