Ben Nimmo

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

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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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@Meta There’s lots more meat in the report. For the full read, see https://t.co/pkFRNRJIBr

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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

https://t.co/Dhxp4PHU6h

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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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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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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 banned the ChatGPT accounts involved and shared information about the social media activity with Meta.

https://t.co/kukPDz4uIS

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@elisethoma5 5/ My team is continuing to monitor for and disrupt any violating activity heading into tomorrow’s election and appreciate your flagging this.

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@elisethoma5 4/ As you noted earlier in this thread, these posts don't appear to have reached a meaningful audience. It also looks like the X accounts have been taken down.

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@OpenAI 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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OUT TODAY: @OpenAI's update on disrupting deceptive uses of AI.

Featuring case studies of cyber operations, covert influence ops and deceptive networks that we disrupted from around the world:

https://t.co/jWOQYlayeF

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@OpenAI 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.