LLMMedium
Kremlin-Linked Entities Allegedly Using Generative AI to Spread Russian Disinformation in Latin America
- Occurred
- Oct 26, 2023
- Published
- Nov 7, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Moscow-based tech firms and an industry association with links to the Kremlin are allegedly using generative AI to spread Russian disinformation in countries throughout Central America and South America. According to the U.S. Department of State, the Russian companies rely on local writers to compose stories which are then amplified across social media using artificial intelligence chatbots.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Structura National Technologies
- Social Design Agency
- Oleg Yasinsky
- Oleg Yasinskiy
- Nikolay Tupikin
- Institute for Internet Development
- Ilya Gambashidze
- Andrey Perla
Harmed parties
- Ukraine
- News media in Latin America
- Journalistic integrity
- General public
Tags
- disinformation
- Russia
- Latin America
- Central America
- South America
- geopolitics
- influence campaigns
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Generative AI chatbots used for disinformation campaigns, fitting LLM category with medium severity due to geopolitical impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8