OpenAI said Wednesday that it shut down a group of accounts tied to a network originating in Russia that used ChatGPT to promote an organization presenting itself as an academic institute. According to the company, the operators relied on Russian-language prompts to generate mostly English social media posts and comments, and also instructed the chatbot to hide signs that the content came from Russia. OpenAI said the group accessed ChatGPT through VPNs because the service is unavailable in Russia. The campaign promoted the International Burke Institute, which described itself as an Israel-based expert group. OpenAI reviewed 36 articles on the institute’s website and found that 34 had been copied, with some attributed to academics who did not write them. The company cited one article on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that appeared to be copied from a Cambridge University Press original but was wrongly credited to a University of Nottingham professor whose expertise is South Asian politics. OpenAI said the campaign appeared to reach relatively small audiences, but called its structure unusually elaborate compared with other Russia-linked operations it has disrupted since the war in Ukraine began. The company did not attribute the IBI campaign to the Russian government and said the role of some people in Israel who may have represented the institute remains unclear.

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