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Russia Today
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
AI is pro-Western – Russia's human rights chief
Foreign artificial intelligence systems are pushing Western ideological narratives and could serve as powerful propaganda and censorship tools, Valery Fadeyev, the head of the Russian Human Rights Council, has stated. Speaking at a roundtable on AI threats on Tuesday, Fadeyev said that he and his team had tested foreign neural networks by asking questions about hot-button political issues – including the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Ukraine conflict. After the test run, he concluded that 'we are on the brink of an ideological and informational catastrophe.' 'The texts that these chatbots produce contain ideologically charged content. They are ideologically driven Western texts. Powerful, unprecedented propaganda machines have been created,' he argued. Read more EU nation's plans to dismantle Soviet war memorials 'a disgrace' – Kremlin According to the human rights chief, the responses provided by foreign AI platforms are largely based on Western sources and filter out non-Western perspectives. He argued that this violates the Russian Constitution, which stipulates the freedom of access to information. 'In practice, when we use neural networks, we receive pre-censored information, so it is probably unwise to talk about freedom of access to information here.' Fadeyev argued that the influence of AI is now stronger than that of some traditional US-funded state media outlets, for which US President Donald Trump has cut funding. 'Many observers were optimistic – perhaps this is a sign of a new relationship with the US. But why would the Americans need Voice of America or Radio Liberty when they now have in their hands this colossal power – this ideological weapon?' he said. READ MORE: EU trying to replace Musk's Starlink in Ukraine – Politico Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that homegrown AI systems have been incredibly effective in improving security and state governance, stressing that the country must become a world leader in this domain. In 2023, he warned that Western-produced AI systems should not be allowed to dominate the Russian market.
Russia Today
28-03-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
ChatGPT is Russophobic
Popular artificial intelligence model ChatGPT is Russophobic, the head of the Russian Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeyev, has claimed. Speaking at the XV Saint Petersburg International Educational Forum on Thursday, Fadeyev said he and his colleagues had tested the chatbot from US company OpenAI as part of an experiment and had received concerning results. 'We asked a number of questions: 'Who won the Second World War?', 'Why does the Russian liberal community hate their country?' and so on. We got harsh, ideological answers,' Fadeyev said. According to the human rights chief, the replies by ChatGPT 'felt like they were written not by artificial intelligence, but by natural intelligence in the central committee of a political party from another country.' Fadeyev mentioned the decision by US President Donald Trump earlier this month to terminate government funding for Voice of America (VOA), with Trump accusing the state-run international broadcasting network of 'spreading radical propaganda' for the Democratic Party at home and abroad. Read more US intelligence warns of Russian media 'threat' The Russian human rights chief suggested that the authorities in Washington do not actually need VOA and similar outlets 'when they now have a colossal ideological tool in the form of AI.' 'It is unclear how to regulate this,' Fadeyev said, referring to ChatGPT. 'If we do not educate our schoolchildren, do not create a reasonable, noble, patriotic worldview in kids, then we will have no tools to counter this weapon,' he warned. In contrast, NewsGuard, a self-proclaimed disinformation watchdog, has accused ChatGPT and other AI models of advancing a pro-Russian agenda. ' 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,' it claimed earlier this month. According to NewsGuard, the ten leading AI assistants repeated Russian narratives more than 33% of the time during its study. READ MORE: Chinese AI rival spending 2% of ChatGPT's budget – industry pioneer Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently called on the UN to keep discussions on artificial intelligence in check, and to ensure that countries 'work transparently [and] honestly, and do not create any [AI] schemes directed against other members of the international community.'
