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Russian propaganda may be influencing sealed answers from AI chatbots , include OpenAI ’s ChatGPT and Meta ’s Meta AI , fit in to a new study .

NewsGuard , a caller that arise valuation system for news show and information websites , claims to have discover grounds that a Moscow - based connection named “ Pravda ” is publish false title to affect the responses of AI models .

Pravda has flooded hunt results and web earthworm with pro - Russian falsehood , publish 3.6 million misleading articles in 2024 alone , per NewsGuard , summon statistic from the nonprofitAmerican Sunlight Project .

NewsGuard ’s analytic thinking , which probed 10 run chatbots , found that the chatbots collectively repeated false Russian disinformation tale , like that the U.S. operate secret bioweapons research lab in Ukraine , 33 % of the sentence .

According to NewsGuard , the Pravda connection ’s effectiveness in infiltrating AI chatbot output can be largely assign to its technique , which postulate search railway locomotive optimization strategies to promote the visibility of its content . This may prove to be an intractable trouble for chatbots heavy reliant on entanglement railway locomotive .

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