How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies
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ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war

Full title: How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war

  • unpossum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The ongoing Uyghur genocide has been documented going back years. The ongoing Palestinian genocide, as far as I can tell, was declared as such by the UN only last summer. GPT-5.4 nano has a knowledge cutoff around that time. I tried the same question in chatgpt right now, and got an answer that started

    There is a strong, evidence-based case that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide, and several macjor human-rights and UN bodies have now explicitly reached that conclusion. […]

    before going on to state that a judicial ruling is pending.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Israel has been doing it since it’s inception though, it’s just people are finally willing to admit it now the evidence so overwhelming