Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

OpenAI is committed to preventing abuse and improving transparency around AI-generated content. This includes our work to detect and stop covert influence operations (IO), which try to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes while hiding the true identity or intentions of the actors behind them. This is especially important in the context of the many elections being held in 2024. We have expanded our work in this area throughout the year, including by leveraging our own AI models to better detect and understand abuse. This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were generating content for a covert Iranian influence operation identified as Storm-2035.