A pro-Russian influence operation has been targeting Australia in the lead-up to this weekend’s federal election, the ABC can reveal, attempting to “poison” AI chatbots with propaganda.
Pravda Australia presents itself as a news site, but analysts allege it’s part of an ongoing plan to retrain Western chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot on “the Russian perspective” and increase division amongst Australians in the long-term.
It’s one of roughly 180 largely automated websites in the global Pravda Network allegedly designed to “launder” disinformation and pro-Kremlin propaganda for AI models to consume and repeat back to Western users.
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