A sprawling Russian disinformation network is manipulating Western AI chatbots to spew pro-Kremlin propaganda. Will other authoritarian regimes follow their lead?

"Massive amounts of Russian propaganda -- 3,600,000 articles in 2024 -- are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda," NewsGuard researchers McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis Blachez wrote in a report."

Russia has done this by flooding the internet with content to act as AI training material. Drown out enough of the truth with your lies, and AI will never know the difference. Will other authoritarian regimes learn lessons, and decide to follow their lead?

If you can ban or capture enough internet infrastructure so you can suppress what you don't like, then you can use AI to help flood what you don't control with what you want people to think.