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(Photo by Majid Saeedi\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"26.087328767123\"><body readability=\"53.150915203586\"><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI identified and banned a cluster of accounts this week that the company said Friday were part of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/disrupting-a-covert-iranian-influence-operation\/\">covert Iranian influence operation<\/a>\u201d that generated content related to a variety of issues, including the U.S. presidential elections. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes less than a week after former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign said that it had been compromised by a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-campaign-says-emails-were-hacked-jumpstarting-a-wild-ride-to-election-day\/\">cyber operation that Microsoft linked<\/a> to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which used a former senior Trump adviser\u2019s compromised email account to successfully exfiltrate internal campaign materials. <\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/iran-israel-hacking-phishing\/\">also said this week<\/a> that it had observed Iranian-backed efforts to step up the targeting of American and Israeli officials and organizations, including both major U.S. presidential campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian effort identified by OpenAI used ChatGPT to generate long-form articles and shorter social media comments, which were shared across five websites posing as both progressive and conservative news outlets, as well as comments in Spanish and English posted on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe identified a dozen accounts on X and one on Instagram involved in this operation, with some accounts posing as progressives and others as conservatives,\u201d OpenAI said in a statement posted to the company\u2019s website Friday. \u201cThey generated some of these comments by asking our models to rewrite comments posted by other social media users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The content generated by the operation touched on the Israel-Gaza conflict, Israel\u2019s presence at the Olympic Games, the U.S. presidential elections, politics in Venezuela, the rights of Latinx communities in the U.S. and Scottish independence, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>The operation did \u201cnot appear to have achieved meaningful audience engagement,\u201d the company noted, with the \u201cmajority of social media posts that we identified [receiving] few or no likes, shares or comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s report noted that an Iranian cluster of activity that spun up phony \u201cnews\u201d and commentary websites sought to engage U.S. voters on opposing sides of the political spectrum, in part, by using AI-enabled services.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/openai-bans-accounts-linked-to-covert-iranian-influence-operation.png?w=640&ssl=1\" alt><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image flagged by Microsoft as being part of an Iranian influence operation. The same website was cited by OpenAI Aug. 16 as being part of Iranian efforts to influence U.S. elections (Internet Archive\/CyberScoop)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment Friday. The spokesperson previously told CyberScoop that the Iranian government neither had intent nor motive to interfere in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"1.1280991735537\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"8\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/openai-bans-accounts-linked-to-covert-iranian-influence-operation-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"AJ Vicens\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by AJ Vicens<\/h4>\n<p> AJ covers nation-state threats and cybercrime. He was previously a reporter at Mother Jones. 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