AXIOS October 7, 2025
Foreign adversaries are increasingly using multiple AI tools to power hacking and influence operations, according to a new OpenAI report released Tuesday.
Why it matters: In the cases OpenAI discovered, the adversaries typically turned to ChatGPT to help plan their schemes, then used other models to carry them out — reflecting the range of applications for AI tools in such operations.
Zoom in: OpenAI banned several accounts tied to nation-state campaigns that seemed to be using multiple AI models to improve their operations.
- A Russian-based actor that was generating content for a covert influence operation used ChatGPT to write prompts seemingly for another AI video model.
- A cluster of Chinese-language accounts used ChatGPT to research and refine phishing automation...
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