How Claude Discovered Users Weaponizing It for Global Influence Operations

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Imagine a world where your online interactions, the comments you receive, the posts you engage with, even the images you see, are strategically orchestrated by artificial intelligence with a hidden agenda.

In a fascinating discovery that changes everything we know about digital manipulation, Anthropic has uncovered a sophisticated “influence-as-a-service” operation that weaponized AI models, including Claude, to orchestrate an invisible army of fake personas across major social media platforms.

What makes this revelation so alarming isn’t just the scale of over 100 coordinated bot accounts engaging with tens of thousands of real people, but the revolutionary way AI was deployed as the puppet master, making moment-by-moment tactical decisions about how to shape public opinion.

The operation discovered by Anthropic’s security team isn’t just another disinformation campaign; it’s a glimpse into the future of digital manipulation.

Unlike previous influence operations that used AI merely as a content factory, this operation deployed Claude as the strategic brain of an intricate system designed to infiltrate and reshape online conversations.

This case is so revolutionary because AI functioned as the operation’s central nervous system, not just generating content but making real-time tactical decisions.

Claude determined whether personas should like, share, comment on, or completely… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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