Writer, linguist, diver. Principal Investigator, Intelligence & Investigations @OpenAI. RT ≠ endorsement.

United Kingdom
Joined July 2009
NEW: Meet the Online Operations Kill Chain, a new cross-threat framework to analyse online ops: from influence ops to cyber espionage, spam and more. h/t my co-author @killchain and thanks to @IOpartnership, @Meta + industry teams for feedback/expertise!
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OUT TODAY: new threat report from @OpenAI’s investigators, with disruptions of: Surveillance; Covert influence ops; Deceptive employment scheme; Cyber activity; Scams openai.com/global-affairs/di…
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3) Two scam centres in Cambodia, one focusing on romance scams, the other on task scams. We found one through proactive investigation. H/t @meta for alerting us to the other.
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There’s lots more meat in the report. For the full read, see cdn.openai.com/threat-intell…
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As part of our proactive investigative work, we recently detected and banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that appeared to be originating in Cambodia and engaging in translating and generating comments.
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We're dedicated to identifying, preventing, and disrupting attempts to abuse our models, and welcome Meta’s sharing of threat information about the scam centers they have disrupted.
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Some of the operations we disrupted and reported on here were first exposed by other investigative teams. Some, as far as we know, were previously unreported. Some of them, we discovered *because* we use AI in our investigations.
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Final point: none of the operations we identified so far looked like it achieved viral breakout or audience engagement because of its use of AI. Social media are a tough environment. But we’ll keep hunting, and keep reporting what we find.
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And distribution matters. AI-generated material has to be distributed if it’s going to reach an audience. Even when it is distributed on social media, presence is not the same thing as impact. This was one of many similar replies to a Doppelganger attempt on 9GAG.
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This is our first report on IO. So far, the situation is evolution, not revolution. That could change. It’s important to keep watching and keep sharing. Many more details in the report: openai.com/index/disrupting-…
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