In a world where the line between reality and carefully manufactured fiction keeps getting harder to see, OpenAI has quietly pulled back the curtain on two of the more sophisticated influence operations to surface in recent years. The company, best known for building ChatGPT, announced on October 12 that it had disrupted covert campaigns originating in Russia and Iran, both of which used its own AI tools to help spread deceptive political narratives across the internet. The report is equal parts fascinating and troubling, because it shows that the technological barrier to creating convincing propaganda has never been lower. These…

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