Did Israeli Company “STOIC” Made Anti-BJP Statements to Influence Voters? OpenAI Announces A Shocking Exposure -

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Did Israeli Company “STOIC” Made Anti-BJP Statements to Influence Voters? OpenAI Announces A Shocking Exposure

A comprehensive probe has been requested by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who has further emphasized the danger to democratic systems.

Following the publication of a pioneering threat intelligence assessment by OpenAI, it was discovered that an Israeli company known as STOIC was participating in covert operations with the intention of influencing the elections in India. The company employed sophisticated models of artificial intelligence in order to generate and disseminate comments that were critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is currently in power, and supportive of the Congress party, which is in opposition.

A few days before the results of the Lok Sabha election are scheduled to be disclosed, these activities were brought to the public’s attention.

According to the study published by OpenAI, these influence activities were identified in the month of May. The operations were primarily aimed at altering public opinion through social media platforms such as X (previously Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, other websites, and YouTube.

According to the study, STOIC was a political campaign management company that specialized in using artificial intelligence to generate and spread content that misled and fooled the general public about their identities and how they intended to conduct themselves.

Immediately following the revelations, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who is the Minister of Electronics and Technology for the Union, issued a forceful response. He stated that it was abundantly evident that the BJP was the intended target of these operations, which he characterized as a grave danger to democratic institutions.

In addition to criticizing the timing of the disclosure and stating that the information should have been revealed earlier in order to lessen the impact it would have on the elections, Chandrasekhar asked for an investigation that would be both in-depth and entirely comprehensive.

In a related event, Meta reported that multiple profiles, pages, and organizations on Instagram that targeted the Sikh community were removed from the platform. With the intention of creating a false activist movement known as Operation K, this network, which can be traced back to China, pretended to be members of the Sikh community.

Through the use of bogus and compromised accounts, the movement spread content that was relevant to worldwide Sikh concerns, the pro-Khalistan movement, and the assassination of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Additionally, the organization encouraged protests that were in favor of Sikhs.

Meta noted that these accounts frequently used photographs that were either created by artificial intelligence or altered by photo editing programs.

Meta underlined the prompt action they took in deleting these activities in order to prevent them from obtaining considerable popularity among genuine communities.

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Yogesh Naager is a content marketer who specializes in the cybersecurity and B2B space. Besides writing for the News4Hackers blog, he’s also written for brands including CollegeDunia, Utsav Fashion, and NASSCOM. Naager entered the field of content in an unusual way. He began his career as an insurance sales executive, where he developed an interest in simplifying difficult concepts. He also combines this interest with a love of narrative, which makes him a good writer in the cybersecurity field. In the bottom line, he frequently writes for Craw Security.

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