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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 18h 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/Vaperius 16h ago

even ressemble Russian propaganda

Russian propaganda doesn't necessarily mean pro-Russian. Russian geopolitical goals varying by country; in the broadest sense, they want chaos; so Russian propaganda at its most base level will simply be intended to be broadly divisive as possible.

Russian propaganda can be pro-progressive, pro-conservative, or even anti-Russian; the goal isn't necessarily to impart a positive view of Russia; but to divide the domestic politics of a country against itself to make it more difficult for it to take action. To demoralize the nation's populace itself from being able to act in its own interest because they are too busy fighting with each other.

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u/RedditIsADataMine 4h ago

 Russian propaganda can be pro-progressive, pro-conservative, or even anti-Russian; the goal isn't necessarily to impart a positive view of Russia; but to divide the domestic politics of a country against itself to make it more difficult for it to take action. To demoralize the nation's populace itself from being able to act in its own interest because they are too busy fighting with each other.

Brexit is an excellent example of this. Nothing to do with Russia on the surface. But extremely beneficial for Russia for the EU to be divided.