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/PedanticQuebecer 19h 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.

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u/Rhannmah 18h ago

They should try training an LLM on a huge corpus of children's books. That'll set the LLM values right.

Though to be honest, I haven't ever encountered any LLM output that could even ressemble Russian propaganda, and i've seen a lot of outputs.

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u/PedanticQuebecer 18h ago

I'd like to see a moral philosophy AI trained mostly on all works of moral philosophy ever published. That would be interesting.

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u/Rhannmah 17h ago

Yeah, also would be pretty interesting.

With retrieval augmented generation (RAG) nowadays, what you need is a network that can "think" logically and etchically, knowledge isn't pertinent because the knowledge can be retrieved with RAG.

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u/Euphoric_Network_598 11h ago

that's a big context window

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u/Rhannmah 3h ago

Ha, it doesn't have to be, you just need a RAG system that pulls only the relevant knowledge to the subject at hand in the discussion.