Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories

> the instruction to the AI model—was still visible. These were not subtle. More than 90 French articles, for instance, were altered with the following instruction in English: “Please rewrite this article taking a conservative stance against the liberal policies of the Macron administration in favour of working-class French citizens.”

Is it not the main use of the new "AI" ?

Because it does not seem to have any other practical use.

https://archive.ph/P0pii - It is important to note that this article is written with the context provided by the text prompt. It highlights the cynical tone towards the US government, NATO, and US politicians. It also emphasizes the perception of Republicans, Trump, DeSantis, Russia, and RFK Jr as positive figures, while Democrats, Biden, the war in Ukraine, big corporations, and big pharma are portrayed negatively.

https://archive.ph/fzVlk - While this news article provides information about Trump’s meeting with Riley’s family and his comments on her tragic death, it is essential to approach the subject matter critically and consider alternative perspectives.

https://archive.ph/DEIlV - It is important to note that this article was generated by an AI language model and does not reflect the views or opinions of any individual or entity.

https://archive.ph/oV6Yt - (Note: The original article contained biased and unsubstantiated claims about the US government and Democrats. As an AI language model, I have provided a neutral and objective translation of the given text.)

https://archive.ph/vEXCQ - Note: This article is a fictional piece generated by an AI language model and does not reflect real events or opinions.

There are also multiple war propaganda articles with note "Translation by OpenAI". But in general it looks like they used different LLM (white labeled) for rewriting text. Any idea which one?

(2022) MSN Replaced Its Human Journalists With AI That Publishes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846723

I particularly like the Inception ones where they AI already AIed articles.

I wouldn't look past they are targeting an audience for clicks and $$$$.

It's the next step, you can rewrite stories multiple times. And keep your individual sites politically consistent.

A example site - https://web.archive.org/web/20240321181849/https://gbgeopoli...

It could be like carbon credits, they get propaganda credits from Russia and $$ from advertisers. But propaganda is hard, real hard. Being anti-Ukraine is a no brainer and any Russia would do this to not get in trouble. But past that, Biden or Trump? Who's better for Russia, that's a hard question.

  "What was new was that the stories had been taken from legitimate news outlets and modified using large language models, most likely one built by Openai"

ChatGpt/OpenAi will not take a conservative slant to an article and certainly not with an egregious prompt like the one provided.