Russia points to chat bot Ai to spread propaganda

Russian propaganda uses a new approach to spread fake information, focusing on Western chat bots with artificial intelligence. Instead of directly affecting people, propagandists began to plant their fakes and systems, which, in turn, would consider when processing and releasing information. This is stated in the Newsguard report.

Russian misinformation network Is this true. It is known that in a third of cases the chat bots use arguments passed by propagandists based on misinformation created Truth. This means that false narratives are actively falling into search results and news platforms.

The report emphasized that Is this true He spread at least 207 statements, the deception of which was proven, specifically related to Ukraine.

The Russian Federation network, created in April 2022, is already covered by 49 countries and working in twelve -two languages. Of the 150 of its sites, almost 40 are Russian -Speaking, which uses domain names that belong to different regions of Ukraine, Newsguard notes.

He actively spreads fakes about Ukraine, especially through fake news that pretends to be real, and manipulates information through sites that are masked for regional media in the USA and other countries.

Among the participants in this network were Mark Dugan, a former American police officer and marine cornet, who moved to Moscow, where he became one of the most active Kremlin propagandists. Dugan has support from Russian world ideologist Alexander Dugin, and receives financing from Russian military intelligence of GRU.

Internet trolls in Russia have specifically prescribed activities for AI, in particular, which teach content creation with a specific political orientation. They are allowed to manipulate the flow of information at the global level, especially through the news generated based on political preferences.

In 2023, Dugan said that, promoting Russian narratives through AI, they could “change the global information landscape.”

Earlier, the BBC during the investigation found several methods by which Russian internet trolls prescribed AI activities. For example, some notes may not be a complete composition, but based on the true news that “rewritten from a conservative point of view.” So, especially, for working with an article posted on a fake site, imposing itself as a regional publication in the United States, artificial intelligence has been given the following instructions: “That’s what you need to remember for the context.

Earlier in the National Security and Defense Council, they discussed Kremlin’s new fakes. The next manipulation and misinformation is associated with the receipt of Russian passports, relationships between Kyiv and Berlin, as well as the supply of helicopters from the United States to Ukraine.