Crypto Exchange Binance Claims to Be A Victim of ChatGPT Smear Campaign

The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance has found itself at the receiving end of the AI revolution driven by ChatGPT. Binance said that someone has been using AI to wage a disinformation campaign against the platform.

Speaking to Fortune magazine, Binance said that they have received several requests on whether Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao was an official member of the Chinese Communist Party. Besides, there has been a flurry of inquiries from the congressional offices recently that points to a purported conversation wherein the OpenAI platform ChatGPT reported that Binance founder CZ build a social media platform for the China National Petroleum Corporation.

Patrick Hillman, the chief strategy officer at Binance has recently come out lashing at ChatGPT sharing the details of the chat. He blamed ChatGPT for pulling out information from a fake LinkedIn profile of CZ as well as a non-existent Forbes article.

The Details of the chat with ChatGPT

In a conversational chat with the OpenAI’s chatbot platform, Hillman asked whether CZ was really a member of the Youth League Committee of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

Citing public information, ChatGPT said that he was indeed a member of the CNPC while working at the company in the 90s.

We respond to A LOT of stupid inquiries here, but this is really special. Thank you to @FortuneMagazine for actually digging into this. Would love for someone to figure out who is behind this.

More details in 🧵 https://t.co/kDbAEjgkkV

— Patrick Hillmann 🤷🏻‍♂️👉 (@PRHillmann) May 1, 2023

When asked where this information is available, ChatGPT said that it was publicly available pointing out the fake LinkedIn profile of Changpen Zhao. It also claimed that the information is available in several news articles and interviews.

Later, ChatGPT goes on to point out CZ’s interview with Forbes, wherein CZ mentions his past stint with CNPC. Citing the fake LinkedIn profile, ChatGPT said that CZ mentioned his role at CNPC as a “Software Developer”.

Later, ChatGPT points out a Forbes link that claims that the story doesn’t exist. This is now of the interesting cases which shows that not everything that ChatGPT shows is real. Thus, one must do due diligence with fact-checking the real information.