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…

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

www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda-ukraine-war-zv6lsc0hl

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

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.