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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…

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
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Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

It’s not just Russian propaganda anymore. It got adopted more widely in an effort to establish oligarchies in the West as well.

It’s useful for the super-rich because staying on the path of democracy and regulation hurts their profits, and it’s useful for Putin because it destabilizes Europe when European countries turn more isolated and separated with right-wing nationalist leaderships.

Replying to @⁨Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml⁩

Everyone gather round and take a close look at this specimen. Here is something very peculiar I’ve seen with the loudest ML users. They usually have a well rehearsed auth-left script with plausible talking points, but when it gets off script they show specific capitalist-coded rhetoric.

In real life, I’ve never met anyone on the left/far left who would use unemployment (especially under a capitalist-fascist hegemony) as a pejorative. The casting of unemployment as a personal failing and character flaw is a deeply capitalist narrative. The USSR, which they profess to support, widely publicized employment as a fundamental human right. It was in their Constitution!

So we have to consider: is this user dumb enough to think that furthering pro-capitalist fiction is praxis? Or are they not leftist at all, perhaps a false-flag agitant?

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

Yea here’s the problem. The dumbest people you know are in charge right now. No I don’t mean they’re literally the stupidest by definition.

What I mean is that we created a system of nepotism and wealth so that many positions in both government and business are occupied by people WHO NEVER REALLY HAD TO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD.

This is a major problem. You cannot adequately govern or make decisions that affect everyone’s lives when you have no earthly idea what effect you’re having.

Replying to @⁨carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩

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.

Replying to @⁨unpossum@sh.itjust.works⁩

The ongoing Uyghur genocide has been documented

We’re counting Adrian Zenz 's fever dreams as documentation now?

Or has some evidence been put forth with primary sources that aren’t Dr Zenz or the same handful of ETIC separatists with known CIA handlers?

How about when the US says they’re going to lie about something to destabilize a geopolitical adversary we take them at their word?

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