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OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics
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This reveals a concrete example of AI-generated content being weaponized for political influence at scale, where fabricated reporter identities and automated editorial workflows produce near-daily articles targeting specific policy debates. For engineers, the site's exposed client-side React code shows exactly how such operations can be built: an editorial interface with fields like 'AI Background Context' and buttons like 'Generate Story Draft' and 'Regenerate' that automate the entire content pipeline.
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Acutus published 94 articles in under four months with no human reporters; 69% were flagged as fully AI-generated and 28% as partially AI-generated, with only three classified as human-authored.
The site's publicly accessible JavaScript revealed an editorial interface containing fields for 'AI Background Context' and 'Question Prompts,' plus tools for AI-led editorial review and quote extraction from research notes.
Links to Targeted Victory, the firm at the center of OpenAI's $125 million political operation, were found connecting the PAC to this site for the second time this month.
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