OpenAI has published a report about ChatGPT users, who it says were likely based in China, that used the chatbot to plan a campaign designed to sway Americans’ opinions about AI data centers.
It divided the users into two clusters, the first of which it had designated the “Data Center Bandwagon” group. Accounts categorized in the group allegedly asked ChatGPT to generate English-language talking points and images, such as comic strips, which focus on how AI data centers drive up demand in electricity and how that leads to higher bills for consumers.
The company says these users posed as Americans from a variety of backgrounds on social media, where they had posted the text and image output they got from ChatGPT. OpenAI believes they’re part of a social media team at a private Chinese company working for local government clients. They apparently even uploaded a file to the chatbot describing their objectives and strategies on how to sway public opinion and how to establish fake social media accounts without getting detected.
Earlier on today it was just a vague idea that was being thrown about by tech bros. Now one of their companies (that makes products which generate things you want to hear out of thin air} has found definitive proof. I’m not saying that they are pathetic fucking liars but it would be nice to have this confirmed by an independent party.
probably had an intern change their windows’ locale to prc and then construct the ‘proof’