Openai discovers the evidence of the Chinese surveillance tool with AI

Openai said Friday that he had discovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial surveillance tool with intelligence to gather real-time reports on anti-chin publications in social media services in Western countries.

The company's researchers said they had identified this new campaign.

Ben Nimmo, a Openai principal researcher, said this was the first time that the company discovered a surveillance tool with this type.

“Threat actors sometimes give us an idea of ​​what they are doing in other parts of the Internet due to the way they use our ai models,” Nimmo said.

There has been a growing concern that ai can be used for surveillance, computer piracy, misinformation campaigns and other malicious purposes. Although researchers such as Mr. Nimmo say that technology can certainly allow such activities, they add that ai can also help identify and stop such behavior.

Mr. Nimmo and his team believe that the Chinese surveillance tool is based on flame, a Meta -built technology, which opens its technology, which means that it shared its work with software developers worldwide.

In a detailed report on the use of ai for malicious and deceitful purposes, OpenAi also said that he had discovered a separate Chinese campaign, called sponsoring discontent, which used OpenAi technologies to generate publications in English that criticized Chinese dissidents.

The same group, OpenAI said, has used the company's technologies to translate the articles in Spanish before distributing them in Latin America. Articles criticized the society and politics of the United States.

Separately, Operai researchers identified a campaign, which is believed to be based on Cambodia, who used the company's technologies to generate and translate comments on social networks that helped boost a scam known as “Pork butcher shop“, The report said. The comments generated by ai were used to attract men on the Internet and entangle them in an investment scheme.

(The New York Times has sued Openai and Microsoft for the violation of the copyright of the news content related to the IA. OpenAI and Microsoft systems have denied those statements).