OpenAI: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
OpenAI announced Friday (16 August 2024) that they identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were generating content for a covert Iranian influence operation identified as Storm-2035. The operation used ChatGPT to generate content focused on a number of topics—including commentary on candidates on both sides in the U.S. presidential election – which it then shared via social media accounts and websites.
The operation generated content about several topics: mainly, the conflict in Gaza, Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games, and the U.S. presidential election—and to a lesser extent politics in Venezuela, the rights of Latinx communities in the U.S. (both in Spanish and English), and Scottish independence. They interspersed their political content with comments about fashion and beauty, possibly to appear more authentic or in an attempt to build a following.
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See related The Hacker News reporting: OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda
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I just released pdbconv, a program to convert PDB files between the plain old MSF format and the new MSFZ format that MS hasn't officially released yet.
It's available on github: https://github.com/ynwarcs/pdbconv
I also made a blog post describing the new format and what lead me to write the converter: https://ynwarcs.github.io/pdbconv-pdb-compression