NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
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Discussion
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@gunnardewinter
Gunnar De Winter
on bluesky
In other fun news, Russia is deliberately injecting disinformation into popular AI chatbots by LLM grooming. — #technology #AI
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@patrickjohanneson.com
Patrick Johanneson
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oh look, another reason to not use “AI” — www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...
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@sirichr
Siri Christiansen
on bluesky
“NewsGuard's findings confirm a February 2025 report by the U.S. nonprofit the American Sunlight Project (ASP), which warned that the Pravda network was likely designed to manipulate AI models rather than to generate human traffic.” — www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a- well-fun…
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@gingeraffe.com
Kaitlin Moore
on bluesky
In incredibly unsurprising news: Pravda, a Russian propaganda network, has spent significant effort in LLM grooming - flooding the web with disinformation and aggregating it with the specific goal of influencing western AI outputs. — www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a- well-fun.…
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@MikeElgan@mastodon.social
Mike Elgan
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Claim of the moment: The top 10 leading AI chat bots advance Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims from a pro-Kremlin propaganda network 33 percent of the time. https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/ ...
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@rvps2001@mastodon.social
@rvps2001@mastodon.social
on mastodon
🇷🇺 A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian #propaganda — An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's #disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Krem…
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green
Toni Aittoniemi
on mastodon
@Techmeme This is the danger of closed source — These are knowledge models, and they only output what they are fed with — And no, they won't magically develop ‘reasoning skills’ and be able to sift through propaganda. NOT when it's part of the training — To think otherwise…
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@claesdevreese@mastodon.social
Claes de Vreese
on mastodon
New report shows how ‘flooding’ the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models. — Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics. — #propaganda #democracy #A…
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r/singularity
r
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
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r/trollfare
r
on reddit
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda