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"But ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Thursday that Hoskins’s purported work was generated using its chatbot by users based in Iran as part of an “influence campaign.”"

Sock puppet accounts and fake opinion pieces are nothing new.

The new thing is a super centralized "tool" that besides doing your writing for you, logs everything, judges it, and reports to authorities and news outlets as it sees fit.

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... well that's one thing that's new.

The other thing that's new (and more structurally relevant, since obviously not all LLMs do what you describe) is the dramatic reduction in cost affiliated with this strategy.

It's (literally) unbelievable that this many allegedly sophisticated people on HN have no concept of cost and what dramatic cost reductions can achieve.

Structural issues, the way LLMs and even social media behave at scale are the heart of the problems being faced.

There's new socio economic groups that are "profitable" to target with phishing attacks, because LLMs made it cheaper in 2024-25.

This is no different than Chatgpt picking up a RadioFree* think piece in the grand scheme.

Radio free is not sanctioned

Yeah because it's ran by the State Department. Propaganda is propaganda.

Only difference is some people are proud to be duped by one and horrified by the other.

Facts are facts. Who did radio free dupe today?

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