Spamouflage / Dragonbridge (China) — ChatGPT for pro-PRC social media astroturfing
Date: 2024-05
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; X, Medium, Blogspot
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: Medium

Chinese influence operation Spamouflage used ChatGPT to generate pro-Beijing comments on X, Medium and Blogspot, debug social-listening scraping code, and research current events. OpenAI banned the cluster as part of its May 2024 disruption of 5 covert influence ops.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):