OpenAI Caught Astroturfing — Super PAC Allegedly Funded Fake News Site with AI Reporters to Attack Safety Advocates
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Substack investigation reveals an OpenAI-linked super PAC funded a news website staffed by AI-generated reporters whose content targets AI safety researchers and advocates. Separately, the SF Standard reported OpenAI secretly funded the 'Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition' — two child safety orgs quit after discovering OpenAI was behind it. University of Michigan professor called it 'classic astroturfing.' 168↑ on r/OpenAI.