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Russia Reportedly Using Artificial Intelligence in Disinformation Campaigns to Erode Western Support for Ukraine
- Occurred
- Oct 2, 2023
- Published
- Nov 21, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The Russian government has been stepping up its foreign influence campaigns by using artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to spread disinformation and sow distrust in policies supportive of Ukraine. Part of the strategy includes carrying out influence laundering operations by disseminating their messages to the American public via allies inside nominally independent organizations, according to a recent declassified analysis.
Developers
- Russian government
Deployers
- Russian government
- FSB
- Federal Security Service
- Misinformation spreaders
- Information manipulation actors
Harmed parties
- Ukraine
- General public
- American public
- General public of the European Union
- Epistemic integrity
- Journalistic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 75%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI used for disinformation campaigns fits deepfake/synthetic media category, but severity is medium as no specific mass casualty or legal action reported.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8