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Iranian campaign planted AI-written fake articles in US publications

Original: Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

An Iranian influence operation used ChatGPT to generate fake news articles that were then placed in legitimate U.S. publications, according to reporting by The Washington Post. The campaign allegedly used accounts posing as American ChatGPT users to produce the content, raising fresh concerns about AI-assisted disinformation reaching mainstream media and the difficulty of detecting machine-written propaganda once it is published under credible mastheads.

Why now: New reporting reveals a foreign disinformation operation exploiting ChatGPT to insert AI-generated propaganda into trusted U.S. news outlets.

IranChatGPTOpenAIThe Washington PostUnited States

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