OpenAI Super PAC Launches AI News Site to Attack Rivals
Acutus Wire launched in December 2025 posing as independent news: 69% of articles fully AI-generated, edits averaging 44 seconds — and a $125M Super PAC tied to OpenAI's president behind it all.
In December 2025, a site called Acutus Wire launched, disguised as independent news. An investigation found that 69% of its articles were fully AI-generated, editing averaged 44 seconds, and 42 pieces went live with an internal flag marked 'needs revision.' The site is linked to 'Leading the Future,' a Super PAC with a $125 million budget tied to OpenAI President Greg Brockman — and it systematically targets Anthropic, AI regulation supporters, and industry critics.
This is the first documented case of AI tools being deployed for a large-scale political campaign disguised as journalism. The company that has publicly warned the world about the dangers of AI-driven disinformation now finds itself at the center of exactly that kind of scandal — and it will reshape the debate over who gets to regulate this technology and how.
Source: www.modelrepublic.org
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Evgenii Arsentev
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