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Title: A Chinese Official's Use of ChatGPT Accidentally Revealed a Global
Intimidation Operation

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/185250/a-...

A sprawling Chinese influence operation -- accidentally revealed by a Chinese
law enforcement official's use of ChatGPT -- focused on intimidating Chinese
dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials,
according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. From a report: The
Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the
alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said. In one instance, Chinese
operators allegedly disguised themselves as US immigration officials to warn
a US-based Chinese dissident that their public statements had supposedly
broken the law, according to the ChatGPT user. In another case, they describe
an effort to use forged documents from a US county court to try to get a
Chinese dissident's social media account taken down. The report offers one of
the most vivid examples yet of how authoritarian regimes can use AI tools to
document their censorship efforts. The influence operation appeared to
involve hundreds of Chinese operators and thousands of fake online accounts
on various social media platforms, according to OpenAI.

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