OpenAI Says It Shut Down Russian and Iranian Influence Operations
Summary
Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban using Claude for deceptive campaigns, weapons development, and election disruption, and requires a human in the loop for high-stakes uses. OpenAI says it shut down two influence operations, from Russia and Iran, that used its models for false-front campaigns. The Iranian operation, OpenAI says, created seven fake journalist personas.
Key Points
- Anthropic prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models" when the abuse has "no discernible purpose."
- OpenAI says the Russian operation recruited people in Latin America to run an on-the-ground think tank using fake documents.
- Anthropic prohibits tracking people without consent or recommending whom to investigate, arrest, or charge.