Articles By
Ani Baghumyan
Stochastic lies: How LLM-powered chatbots deal with Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova, Ani Baghumyan, Victoria Vziatysheva and Elizaveta Kuznetsova
Research on digital misinformation has turned its attention to large language models (LLMs) and their handling of sensitive political topics. Through an AI audit, we analyze how three LLM-powered chatbots (Perplexity, Google Bard, and Bing Chat) generate content in response to the prompts linked to common Russian disinformation narratives about the war in Ukraine.