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China is weaponizing ChatGPT to spread anti-AI propaganda aimed at Americans, according to OpenAI.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a published Wednesday, the company said it shut down a fleet of bogus ChatGPT accounts <\/span>generating content for social media posts that depicted data centers as being responsible for American households\u2019 rising energy costs. The creators of the accounts used VPNs (ChatGPT isn\u2019t available in China) and appear to have been \u201cconducting work for Chinese provincial-level government clients,\u201d according to OpenAI.<\/span><\/p>\n

The AI-powered disinformation campaign\u2019s reach and impact were minimal, the report said. Still, it was a glimpse of a future in which foreign adversaries harness publicly available AI tools to exacerbate political divisions within the U.S. to gain a geopolitical edge. \u201cThe operation sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development,\u201d the report said, \u201cbut we found no evidence of meaningful breakout beyond its own activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the accounts that were trying to fan the flames of anti-data center sentiments, another group of now-deactivated accounts was being used to generate social media posts portraying the Trump administration\u2019s Tariff policies as stifling tech competition abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A political boon<\/b><\/h3>\n

OpenAI\u2019s evidence of government-backed Chinese hackers trying to oppose the American AI industry could be welcome news for many Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers began <\/span>calling upon the Trump administration<\/span> to investigate \u201cforeign influence campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) development in the U.S.,\u201d according to an open letter addressed to David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, co-chairs of the President\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and FBI Director Kash Patel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The letter cited a <\/span>report<\/span> published last month by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a think tank \u201cdedicated to advancing sound Bitcoin policy,\u201d according to its <\/span>website<\/span>, which pegged the blame on what it described as a \u201ccampaign against American AI\u201d on a triumvirate of Chinese state media, a network of left-leaning organizations funded by American tech entrepreneur Roy Singham, and \u201cforeign billionaire dark money.\u201d <\/span>Also cited in the letter was a <\/span>report<\/span> from Power the Future, a right-leaning energy industry advocacy group, which claimed that leftist \u201cenvironmental activists\u201d have been channeling money provided by ideologically motivated billionaires through nonprofits to stymy the growth of new data centers, \u201ccreating the false appearance of grassroots resistance while advancing a broader anti-growth, anti-Trump agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Republicans have generally adopted a\u00a0laissez-faire<\/em> attitude towards the expansion of domestic AI infrastructure, widely supported by the belief that a slowdown at home would advantage China. On Wednesday. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency would not step in to establish nationwide regulations around the spread of data centers, and that such decisions were better left to local governments.<\/p>\n

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Increasingly power-needy tech companies have therefore been given ample leeway to build new data centers, sparking pushback from communities, environmental advocacy groups, and state lawmakers across the country.<\/p>\n

The new report from OpenAI\u2014one of the most well-known (and <\/span>until very recently<\/span> the most well-funded) AI labs in the world\u2014is a considerable boon for Republicans who are trying to blame anti-AI pushback at home on shadowy foreign actors. It\u2019s also a convenient narrative for tech developers themselves as they seek to expand power supplies in the face of mounting community opposition: If your opposition is rooted in a misinformation campaign intended to subvert American interests at home and abroad, then surely you have a right\u2014a patriotic duty, even\u2014to carry on full steam ahead\u2026 right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreign bogeymen<\/b><\/h3>\n

There is, of course, a long history of state-backed hackers using new technology to sway American public opinion and undermine democratic institutions, such as elections. This is already being supercharged by AI, as OpenAI\u2019s new report makes clear. And as the company rightly points out, tech companies building AI and government agencies, therefore, need to be on their guard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But it would be at least as dangerous to let fears of ideological bogeymen eclipse the fact that communities across the country have real anxieties about the encroachments and energy demands of AI data centers. Nefarious hackers will almost certainly continue to exploit those concerns, but that doesn\u2019t delegitimize the concerns themselves.<\/p>\n

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State-backed Chinese hackers “sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development,” the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"yoast_head":"\nOpenAI Adds Fuel to Republican Drive to Label Anti-Data Center Movement a Chinese Psy-Op - Long Haul Moving Pros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=361\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OpenAI Adds Fuel to Republican Drive to Label Anti-Data Center Movement a Chinese Psy-Op - 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