Leading AI Models Reportedly Found to Mimic Russian Disinformation in 33% of Cases and to Cite Fake Moscow News Sites
An audit by NewsGuard revealed that leading chatbots, including ChatGPT-4, You.com’s Smart Assistant, and others, repeated Russian disinformation narratives in one-third of their responses. These narratives originated from a network of fake news sites created by John Mark Dougan (Incident 701). The audit tested 570 prompts across 10 AI chatbots, showing that AI remains a tool for spreading disinformation despite efforts to prevent misuse.
- Date it happened
- 2024-06-18
- Organisation involved
- You.com, xAI, Perplexity, OpenAI, Mistral, Microsoft, Meta, John Mark Dougan, Inflection, Google, Anthropic
- Product, system or model
- You.com Smart Assistant, xAI Grok, Perplexity Answer Engine, Mistral le Chat, Inflection AI Pi, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, 167 fake local news websites operated by John Mark Dougan, M
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