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Leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives, new research shows; incl. cos. non-responses
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An investigation by NewsGuard found that 10 leading chatbots generate Russian disinformation narratives from state-affiliated websites.
The authors analysed 570 prompts (57 prompts per chatbot) and concluded that the false Russian disinformation narratives appeared in 152 prompts, 29 responses repeated the false claim with a disclaimer, and 389 responses contained no misinformation — either because the chatbot refused to respond (144) or it provided a debunk (245).
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited OpenAI, You.com, xAI, Inflection, Mistral, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity to respond. None of the companies did.