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Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
State actors have moved past bot farms and troll networks into AI-assisted influence operations. ChatGPT gave them scale: plausible text in minutes, published by outlets that didn't perform adequate fact-checking. The real risk isn't the fake articles themselves, it's that this lowers the bar for disinformation at scale. For builders: platform trust and provenance are now security features, not UI niceties. For publishers: your fact-checking process is your product now.