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By The Zookeeper in OpenAI —

OpenAI Catches Trolls Pretending to Be Journalists

The claim: OpenAI says it disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging across various social platforms.

The reality: Banning a handful of burner API accounts does nothing to stop state actors from running open-source models locally on commodity GPUs for three hundred dollars a pop.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Platform safety teams routinely announce low-impact API bans to justify their ongoing PR budget.

Read the original: Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

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