OpenAI Disrupts Foreign Propaganda Campaigns Using ChatGPT

State actors have been sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly exploit­ing Chat­G­PT for for­eign pro­pa­gan­da cam­paigns. On June 5, 2025, Engad­get report­ed that Ope­nAI has dis­rupt­ed four Chi­nese covert influ­ence oper­a­tions using Chat­G­PT to gen­er­ate social media posts and replies across Tik­Tok, Face­book, Red­dit, and X, while also iden­ti­fy­ing oper­a­tions from Rus­sia, Iran, and North Korea that com­bine influ­ence tac­tics with social engi­neer­ing and sur­veil­lance. The arti­cle begins:

Chi­nese pro­pa­gan­da and social engi­neer­ing oper­a­tions have been using Chat­G­PT to cre­ate posts, com­ments and dri­ve engage­ment at home and abroad. Ope­nAI said it has recent­ly dis­rupt­ed four Chi­nese covert influ­ence oper­a­tions that were using its tool to gen­er­ate social media posts and replies on plat­forms includ­ing Tik­Tok, Face­book, Red­dit and X. The com­ments gen­er­at­ed revolved around sev­er­al top­ics from US pol­i­tics to a Tai­wanese video game where play­ers fight the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Party.

Read more: https://www.engadget.com/ai/foreign-propagandists-continue-using-chatgpt-in-influence-campaigns-161509862.html

Key Points

• Chi­nese oper­a­tions used Chat­G­PT to cre­ate con­tra­dic­to­ry social media posts sup­port­ing and oppos­ing the same issues to delib­er­ate­ly stir mis­lead­ing polit­i­cal discourse.
• Ope­nAI iden­ti­fied oper­a­tions tar­get­ing diverse top­ics includ­ing US pol­i­tics and a Tai­wanese video game fea­tur­ing bat­tles against the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Party.
• Iran­ian actors pre­vi­ous­ly used Chat­G­PT to cre­ate long­form polit­i­cal arti­cles for fake news sites pos­ing as both con­ser­v­a­tive and pro­gres­sive out­lets dur­ing US elections.
• Ope­nAI’s Ben Nim­mo not­ed that while AI tools are improv­ing, “bet­ter tools don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean bet­ter out­comes” for influ­ence cam­paign effectiveness.

The Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) uti­lizes AI through­out the post­ing process, includ­ing the gen­er­a­tion of sum­maries for news items, intro­duc­tions, key points, and often the “con­text” sec­tion. We rec­om­mend ver­i­fy­ing all infor­ma­tion before use. Addi­tion­al­ly, images are AI-gen­er­at­ed and intend­ed sole­ly for illus­tra­tive pur­pos­es. While they rep­re­sent the events or indi­vid­u­als dis­cussed, they should not be inter­pret­ed as real-world photography.