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Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable
It’s one thing when a chatbot flunks Tower of Hanoi, as Apple notoriously illustrated earlier this month, and another when poor reasoning contributes to the mess of propaganda that threatens to overwhelm the information ecosphere. In February 2025, ASP’s original report on LLM grooming described the apparent attempts of the Pravda network–a centralized collection of websites that spread pro-Russia disinformation–to taint generative models with millions of bogus articles published yearly. For instance, a recent article published on the English-language site of the Pravda network regurgitates antisemitic tropes about “globalists,” falsely claiming that secret societies are somehow ruling the world.
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