Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026
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OpenAI's new report says bad actors are chaining AI models together with websites and social platforms to run scams and influence campaigns. Wild part: it's not the AI alone doing damage, it's how it plugs into the rest of the internet.
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OpenAI dropped its latest threat intelligence report this week, and the throughline is less about rogue chatbots and more about plumbing. The company's researchers found that the people misusing its models aren't relying on some single jailbreak or clever prompt. They're stitching AI output into existing infrastructure — fake news sites, social media accounts, automated posting tools — to make the whole operation run faster and look more convincing.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A model that writes a persuasive paragraph is a curiosity. A pipeline that writes a hundred persuasive paragraphs, posts them across a dozen accounts, and refreshes them daily is a distribution problem, and distribution problems are what actually move public opinion or drain someone's bank account. OpenAI's report frames the danger less as
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