"The non-profit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) on Monday published a study on the responses provided by four widely used chatbots - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, xAI's Grok, and Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence's DeepSeek - in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian on matters related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The group did so because prior research by NewsGuard, another nonprofit, revealed that a Moscow-based disinformation network referred to as "Pravda" has been promoting pro-Kremlin positions on websites, in search results,"
"Placing misleading content online for consumption by AIs is known as "LLM grooming", and sees miscreants launder state media talking points so that they appear to come from a variety of neutral sources. The goal is to have LLMs trained on this material parrot it in response to certain prompts. The models sometimes incorporated pro-Russian content, and the links they displayed occasionally pointed to websites affiliated with the Pravda network."
Responses from four widely used chatbots — OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, xAI's Grok, and Hangzhou DeepSeek's DeepSeek — in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian included links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine. A Moscow-based disinformation network called "Pravda" has promoted pro-Kremlin positions online and has been used to launder state media talking points into training data through 'LLM grooming.' Chatbots sometimes incorporated pro-Russian content and linked to Pravda-affiliated sites. Separate analysis found such AI systems repeated false narratives roughly one-third of the time. Increased use of chatbots as search engines raises scrutiny and regulatory concerns.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]