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Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk

OpenAI just published the playbook on how bad actors will weaponize LLMs against your information ecosystem—and how to stop them.

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Why it matters

OpenAI researchers released a comprehensive framework for understanding and mitigating LLM-enabled disinformation risks. This is a public governance/safety research contribution that matters to CTOs, security leaders, and policy teams navigating AI risk.

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10 to know
  1. Collaboration: OpenAI, Georgetown CSET, Stanford Internet Observatory

  2. 30 participants in October 2021 workshop: disinformation researchers, ML experts, policy analysts

  3. Over 1 year of research timeline

  4. Report published January 2023

  5. Framework focuses on threat modeling and mitigation strategies for LLM-augmented disinformation

  6. OpenAI collaborated with Georgetown CSET and Stanford Internet Observatory

  7. October 2021 workshop with 30 disinformation researchers, ML experts, and policy analysts

  8. Report based on >1 year of research

  9. Framework provided for analyzing mitigations to disinformation risks

  10. Published January 11, 2023

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Publisher excerpt: OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together…
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