{"id":9999,"date":"2026-10-09T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:40:04","slug":"ai-fake-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/10\/09\/ai-fake-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"AI \u2018Fake Journalism\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mxhjce2rys23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreialxlp6ks4tojuahqhav2o6gjqf2nndtunw27hgkxm6gau7s6yc5i\"><p lang=\"en\">&#34;OpenAI revealed on Thursday it had shut down two influence operations \u2014 from Russia and Iran \u2014 that used ChatGPT to push fake journalist personas and run a &#34;think-tank&#34; to covertly spread anti-Ukraine propaganda and foster division in the US and Israel over the war in Iran.&#34;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mxhjce2rys23?ref_src=embed\">2026-10-09T17:38:23.319Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}