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Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust
The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.
“The weaponization of these rudimentary chatbots is not just a possibility but a reality, with potential uses ranging from radicalization to the spread of propaganda and misinformation,” Adam Hadley, executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, a UK-based nonprofit that tracks online extremism, tells WIRED. When asked about its creator, a chatbot called Far-Left Helen wrote: “Gab and its founder, Andrew Torba, are part of the far-right extremist movement that promotes hate speech, bigotry, and intolerance.” Last year, 4chan, one of the darkest corners of the internet, took a copy of Facebook’s large language model, known as LlaMA, and tweaked it to develop chatbots which experts said were capable of enabling online radicalization by promoting violence.
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