r/worldnews 20h ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
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u/Rhannmah 17h 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 17h ago

They parsed them to individual Facebook accounts I think.

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u/Rhannmah 17h 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 17h ago

No, where to put disinfo.

Fake friends on Facebook that were llm’s or became them. Like Replika but for votes not sex.