Russian disinformation 'infects' AI chatbots, researchers warn

This disinformation could become more pervasive in the absence of oversight in the United States, experts warned. — Image by councilcle from Pixabay

WASHINGTON: A sprawling Russian disinformation network is manipulating Western AI chatbots to spew pro-Kremlin propaganda, researchers say, at a time when the United States is reported to have paused its cyber operations against Moscow.

The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods.