Broader AI and Influence Operation Context<\/p>\n
The campaign’s use of AI was primarily for generating promotional social media content and replies to real users on platforms like Substack. Operators also created logos for various Telegram channels focused on Germany, the USA, France, Poland, and T\u00fcrkiye, some of which amplified IBI’s narratives. One operator even generated profile pictures for these channels, exhibiting non-idiomatic English in bios such as “a totally unhackneyed perspective on hazzy.” StartupHub.ai data indicates that while platforms like Substack have a low score of 10\/100, Telegram scores a more substantial 57\/100 in terms of user engagement and reach within the current digital media landscape.<\/p>\n
Impact and Implications<\/p>\n
While the immediate audience reach of this operation appears limited, with social media posts garnering low views, the established infrastructure is significant. The campaign’s strength lay in its creation of a seemingly credible institution, complete with purported experts and research, to obscure the true origins of favored narratives. OpenAI assessed the operation at the lower end of Category Three on the Brookings Breakout Scale, indicating multiple platform uses with some breakout to authentic audiences. This incident underscores how influence actors can use AI as a supporting tool to manufacture authority and establish assets that could be scaled over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broader AI and Influence Operation Context The campaign’s use of AI was primarily for generating promotional social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[306,25,3326,157,5070,186],"class_list":["post-150565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai-startups","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-investors","tag-openai","tag-startup-funding","tag-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}