A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from the analysis group NewsGuard reveals. According to researchers, this wasn’t just a side effect of Moscow flooding the web with false narratives — it was the initiative’s main goal. Here’s how the scheme worked.
Where a ‘liberal’ is anyone a totalitarian disagrees with, and a ‘source’ is a half-hearted general link to a Wikipedia article.
Edit: Davel has now expanded his low-effort response to be more than a Wikipedia link to Five Eyes.