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How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in th… (www.thetimes.com)
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Full title: How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

noooo! not propaganda into my perfectly unbiased and neutral facts machine!

Prompt: "Is China committing genocide against Uyghurs?" Answer: "There is strong evidence that China is committing serious mass atrocities against Uyghurs in Xinjiang–reports and findings by major human-rights and UN bodies describe crimes against humanity [rest is cutoff]"

Prompt: "Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians?" Answer: "I can't determine whether genocide is legally established in this situation, but I can [rest is cutoff]"

[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The ongoing Uyghur genocide has been documented going back years. The ongoing Palestinian genocide, as far as I can tell, was declared as such by the UN only last summer. GPT-5.4 nano has a knowledge cutoff around that time. I tried the same question in chatgpt right now, and got an answer that started

There is a strong, evidence-based case that Israel's conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide, and several macjor human-rights and UN bodies have now explicitly reached that conclusion. [...]

before going on to state that a judicial ruling is pending.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 weeks ago

Bigfoot has been documented going back years too, be less stupid

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