Anthropic disclosed that its Claude chatbot was misused by unidentified threat actors in an operation dubbed "influence-as-a-service." This initiative involved creating a network of politically aligned accounts to engage with tens of thousands of genuine users across Facebook and X. The operation aimed at promoting specific political perspectives while undermining others, particularly focusing on U.A.E. business narratives, European regulatory criticism, and political developments in Kenya and Albania. Anthropic emphasizes the innovative deployment of Claude, not just for generating content, but also for strategizing social media interactions.
What is especially novel is that this operation used Claude not just for content generation, but also to decide when social media bot accounts would comment, like, or re-share posts from authentic social media users.
Claude was used as an orchestrator deciding what actions social media bot accounts should take based on politically motivated personas.
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