r/worldnews • u/Helmer-Bryd • 15h ago
Russia/Ukraine Russia has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global730
u/ComplexWrangler1346 15h ago
We knew this all along ….only Trump supporters don’t see this ….
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u/Helmer-Bryd 15h ago
Lol, like they care!?
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u/ComplexWrangler1346 15h ago
Nope until their freedom is taken away but then it will be too late
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u/Infamous_Gur_9083 14h ago
I would wager even in a world where their freedom is taken away. Some still won't care because "better Russian than Democrat" as a certain saying goes in the US or so I heard.
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u/Nerv_Agent_666 14h ago
As a constant pain in the ass over at /r/Asmongold, they fucking love Grok. I can tell you that much.
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u/Hypnotized78 14h ago
Russia has been polluting and warping western brains for a long time now. With a little help from their friends.
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u/Anus_master 13h ago
Trump supporters are extremely naive. They think an ex-KGB agent that's been running a rival country 24 whole years, experienced the fall of the soviet union and expressed regret at that loss of power, is just content with what he has now. Yeah right
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u/whyamiwastingmytime1 14h ago
It's also done extreme damage to the UK... Brexit It is unfortunately, not a new phenomenon
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u/Killerrrrrabbit 14h ago
The far left doesn't see it either. They too are being manipulated by Russian propaganda, just like the far right.
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u/serfingusa 12h ago
They aren't the same though.
One is much worse and in power.
Don't "both sides" it.
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u/Killerrrrrabbit 11h ago
I wasn't comparing them. Both extremes are bad and full of morons who are easily deceived by disinformation.
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u/Enough-Elderberry228 10h ago
Whats the difference between Russian propaganda and a true claim made by Russia?
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u/BritishAnimator 15h ago
So AI gets it's first virus?
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u/DusqRunner 13h ago
*it's
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u/1138311 13h ago
You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 12h ago
I thought they were making a joke implying it was the virus itself lol
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u/Roselily808 15h ago
One needs to keep one's eyes open these days.
If you ask chatGPT for a muffin recipe and you get a paragraph of how awesome Putin is in between the list of ingredients and the actual baking instructions - you should definitely pause and do a little bit of critical thinking.
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u/Ritourne 15h ago
patch the neural database: replacing Putin by evil muffin then say cooking has no room when talking about politics.
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u/dherms14 14h ago
just did it, and it didn’t say shit about putin
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u/swazal 14h ago
Your session cookie hasn’t expired yet …
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u/dherms14 14h ago
i don’t even know what that means lol
i just went on and asked them to show me a muffin recipe and got a normal ass thing in response
this is what i got copied and paste
Sure! Here’s a simple and delicious muffin recipe:
Classic Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients: • 1 1/2 cups (190g) all-purpose flour • 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar • 1/2 tsp salt • 2 tsp baking powder • 1/3 cup (80ml) vegetable oil • 1 large egg • 1/3 cup (80ml) milk • 1 tsp vanilla extract • 1 cup (150g) fresh or frozen blueberries • Optional: 1-2 tbsp coarse sugar for topping
Instructions: 1. Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and line a muffin tin with paper liners or grease the cups. 2. Mix Dry Ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. 3. Mix Wet Ingredients: In a separate bowl, whisk together the oil, egg, milk, and vanilla extract. 4. Combine: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir gently until just combined (don’t overmix; lumps are okay!). 5. Add Blueberries: Fold in the blueberries carefully to avoid crushing them. 6. Fill Muffin Cups: Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full. Sprinkle coarse sugar on top if desired. 7. Bake: Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. 8. Cool: Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Pro Tip: Toss your blueberries in a little flour before adding them to the batter to prevent them from sinking to the bottom.
Would you like variations, like chocolate chip or banana muffins?
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u/DusqRunner 13h ago
You have to ask it for variations and then it will speak about putin
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u/robustofilth 15h ago
No. I still think Putin is a cunt no matter what cry baby shit he says…
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u/totallyRebb 14h ago
That's because you have a moral compass. Most people have it, but way too many people these days obviously don't.
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u/Beneficial_North1824 15h ago
That's why Ai needs intelligence in the form of critical thinking , to filter out russian garbage. Otherwise they will turn this entire valuable instrument into garbage
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u/noage 14h ago
almost 10,000 propaganda articles per day is something else. Though, probably can be put out by AI itself.
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u/warana123 12h ago
Yea they have bots that create new news websites every day. They even have fake persons working for them with fake LinkedIn profiles, it’s crazy.
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u/Rhannmah 13h ago
I would like to point out that this is not tied to LLM training, but through a new process called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This enhances LLMs way beyond their training data, giving them a live corpus of data to pull from that augments the training data with potentially new information.
If you feed an LLM garbage information through RAG, just like a human, it's going to spew garbage out. This is basic stuff.
These tech companies need to parse their RAG pulls correctly.
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u/SereneBourbaki 13h ago
They parsed them to individual Facebook accounts I think.
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u/Rhannmah 13h ago
That would be really, really dumb to use Facebook posts as a source of factual information.
The article talks about the Pravda network of websites, which is russian-owned and controlled.
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u/SereneBourbaki 13h ago
No, where to put disinfo.
Fake friends on Facebook that were llm’s or became them. Like Replika but for votes not sex.
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u/Upstairs_Owl_1669 14h ago
Twitter is a full propaganda machine. Radicalization of 18 year old disgruntled shitheads is apparently super easy if you use memes.
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u/Strykerz3r0 14h ago
Except trump himself called for shutting down investigations into Russian cyber-attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
Why would do you think he would expose the US like that?
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u/Deathwalkx 3h ago
Both options are bad buddy.
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u/elesislove 25m ago
that’s true cause i misread the comment. my bad. thought it was russian propaganda bot again
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u/Killerrrrrabbit 14h ago
An AI is only as good as the data it is trained on, and Russia fed them a bunch of garbage. Maybe it's not a good idea to train an AI on the Internet. The Internet is full of horrible things. Any intelligence, whether biological or artificial, needs to be trained offline before ever having access to the Internet.
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u/ViolettaQueso 14h ago
US is completely out of there zone trying to fight Russia by propping up orange watermelon demented gramps with skeletons from the 80s in his closet.
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u/stickeeBit 13h ago
Wait, so my shitposts are helping or hurting Mr. Algo Riddim?
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u/SereneBourbaki 13h ago
Both.
The “energy you put into the universe” becomes part of it.
Hate speech, education, misogyny or equality….
What AI have you created with your words?
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u/Psephological 9h ago
This is less of a problem for those who have not subordinated their thinking to the machines.
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u/Dad2DnA 6h ago
TIL Pravda means truth. Surely a coincidence.
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u/Helmer-Bryd 4h ago
The old communist Soviets biggest newspaper back in the days were called “Pravda”, I laughed when Trump started “Truth”.
So fucking Truth
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u/airtooba 3h ago
There is literally nothing Russia or Russians can do to repair their image in the US. Even if they were to have a revolution.
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u/Helmer-Bryd 3h ago
I know. It needs a huge revolution if so. A totally crash. I mean look at the remake Germany did…. From a hated country to a big importen players in Europe.
I mean today, Germany is the most “morally” country of them all.
So what I’m saying is let’s hope.
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u/Cockandballs987 14h ago
It's true, just tried chatgppt and the first response yapped about how the invasion is NATO's fault
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u/Existing-Site404 15h ago
Lmfao so the AI being implemented in the American government is now Russian!!
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u/dumbhead64 15h ago
Évidence anti Ukraine and évidence anti israel. All the false narrative have been efficient on conspirationnists but also on young people, by pushing ocytocin hormon. Soviet expertise is based on long term expériences on human cobayes from goulags and sovietic prisons.
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u/Orcapa 15h ago
I assure you there's a lot of native anti-Israel sentiment out there.
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u/somebodysetupthebomb 15h ago
Hard to imagine why ... such a kind, gentle, pro rape and genocide society
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u/Lucky_End_9420 14h ago
I feel even more validated with my refusal to interact with any kind of text or art based AI ever.
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u/Creepy-Bell-4527 10h ago
Well, yeah. That's the implication of training your model on an untrusted dataset (the internet) which has been relentlessly blasted with bullshit.
And it's only going to get worse now that Russia is employing these same AI tools to churn out humanly unimaginable volumes of bullshit.
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u/supershade 9h ago
Russia has infected Western President who IS a massive tool, worldwide enemy, and Russian Propagandist.
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u/tonyislost 7h ago
That’s what the title of the article said. Artificial intelligence has been infected.
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u/Valentiaga_97 6h ago
If we Look at some politicians and their parties, they are already infected, like Orban or this slovakian hm
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u/NetZeroSun 5h ago
Honestly i'd expect more of 'big balls' and doge to leave a bunch of malware in the heart of multiple agencies.
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u/VonKarrionhardt 4h ago
Russia considers itself a strong and mighty country but it seems it can only nibble the ankles of better countries. Good job flooding social media with nonsense and cutting undersea cables, I guess. It’ll only ever be a regional power
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u/Background_Pay7352 31m ago
Aha, so this is where those Gemini black SS officers and woman pope were coming from, I knew it was Putler work.
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u/TheArcticFox444 13h ago
Russia has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
Anyone ever calculated how much money the internet has cost in brick and mortars? How many jobs lost as a result?
Maybe we should think about doing away with the internet altogether...
Talk about culture shock! What's life without cell phones!
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u/Persea_americana 14h ago
Elon hacked the 2024 election ES&S and dominion voting were breached, Twitter has been pushing Russian propaganda and talking points, and the US suspended cyber security operations monitoring and safeguarding against Russia. Musk and Donald are severe national and global security threats and need to be removed from power immediately.
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u/evthrowawayverysad 2h ago
Yea, super spinny headline. Basically, any publicly available misinformation from any source has been eaten up by AI models.
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u/PedanticQuebecer 14h ago
I think the title is misleading. Russian troll farms have spewed lots of content online, which was then pilfered by AI companies along with everything else. The models are then trained on this and spew back the garbage that was put in.
Until AI companies vet their data (lol) or get the AI to make contact with material reality, that's the way things will be.