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OpenAIOpenAI

Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity

A technical case study detailing a covert AI-driven influence operation around Ghana's 2024 election, illustrating AI-generated content, fake engagement across Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube, and a branded website used to push partisan messaging while masking inauthentic activity.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity

A technical analysis of a covert influence operation that used AI-generated content and fake engagement to sway Ghana's 2024 election, revealing the Empowering Ghana network and its links to DigitSol.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception

A technical case study on AI-assisted deception in recruitment, detailing the North Korea–linked scheme that staged fake job applicants, used VPNs and remote tools to craft resumes, profiles, and interview responses, and leveraged social engineering across LinkedIn and hiring processes to fraudulently place individuals in Western companies.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Task scam: AI-assisted fake review jobs

Explores how AI-assisted translation powers a multi-channel fake-review scam ecosystem, detailing recruiter and mentor personas, the workflow from remote job offers to activation fees, and implications for detection and policy.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Operation “Peer Review”: AI-assisted surveillance planning

A technical case study of a China-origin network dubbed 'Peer Review' that deployed AI to draft surveillance-tool pitches, analyze documents, translate and review content, edit and debug code for social-media monitoring, and provide insights to authorities, illustrating the capabilities and governance challenges of AI-assisted surveillance.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Task scam: AI-assisted fake review jobs

A technical case study detailing OpenAI's disruption of an AI-assisted scam network that used Urdu-English translation to operate fake review jobs, exposing recruiter and mentor personas, multi-channel messaging, and an activation-fee withdrawal trap.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Operation “Peer Review”: AI-assisted surveillance planning

Case study of a China-linked AI-assisted surveillance operation, detailing how a cluster used chat models for research, code debugging, and social-media monitoring to feed intelligence and promotional materials.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception

An in-depth technical exploration of AI-assisted deception in the recruitment lifecycle, tracing fake resumes, support personas, social engineering, and AI-generated interview responses, while detailing TTPs and cross-industry detection efforts to disrupt North Korea-linked schemes.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception

Technical analysis of a North Korea-linked, AI-assisted deceptive recruitment scheme, outlining fake resumes and personas, social-engineering content, and how detection and disruption measures banned accounts and thwarted the operation.

2/1/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Step-by-Step Reasoning for Math Problems via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo

Enhancing multi-step reasoning abilities using Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo for efficient generation of high-quality solutions.

2/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI o3-mini System Card

Exploring the capabilities of the OpenAI o3-mini System Card

1/31/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI o3-mini

Exploring the groundbreaking capabilities of OpenAI's o3-mini model

1/31/2025