US EditionAI chatbots infected with Russian disinformation: Study
- A Russian disinformation network called Pravda has influenced AI chatbots by publishing numerous articles, according to a report from NewsGuard.
- Pravda published 3.6 million articles last year, many processed by chatbots, leading to 33% of their responses reproducing Pravda's narratives, according to NewsGuard.
- The researchers from NewsGuard noted that Pravda's goal was to affect AI responses rather than target human readers.
- Pravda has spread at least 207 disinformation narratives over three years, including claims about U.S. Biolabs in Ukraine, according to NewsGuard.
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