The Influence Operation That Ran on Borrowed Reputations
A Russian operation used ChatGPT to build a fake Israeli think tank, listing real experts as affiliates without asking, with AI personas, photos and video across X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack and Telegram. Of 36 sampled articles, 34 were copied from elsewhere. Reach was small; the machinery was…
A Russian operation used ChatGPT to build a fake Israeli think tank, listing real experts as affiliates without asking, with AI personas, photos and video across X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack and Telegram. Of 36 sampled articles, 34 were copied from elsewhere. Reach was small; the machinery was cheap and convincing.