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Kremlin-Linked Entities Allegedly Using Generative AI to Spread Russian Disinformation in Latin America

October 26, 2023

Moscow-linked entities, including tech firms and an industry association with Kremlin ties, are suspected of employing generative AI to propagate disinformation throughout Central and South America. The U.S. Department of State alleges that these Russian companies leverage local writers to compose narratives, which are then disseminated via social media using AI chatbots.

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Alleged deployer
structura-national-technologies, social-design-agency, oleg-yasinsky, oleg-yasinskiy, nikolay-tupikin, institute-for-internet-development, ilya-gambashidze, andrey-perla
Alleged developer
unknown
Alleged harmed parties
ukraine, news-media-in-latin-america, journalistic-integrity, general-public

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/585

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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