When AI Also Quotes Pravda: “Magyar” on Russia's New Propaganda Weapon
Robert Brovdi, callsign “Magyar,” commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, needs no introduction to our readers. His occasionally blunt manner, unusually unvarnished for diplomacy, produces exactly the attention-grabbing effect he needs. He has already spoken about the West's lag in drone warfare, citing the example that half a dozen Ukrainian drone pilots could bulldoze the entire Ramstein air base, and he has also given a thorough interview. You can find these at the end of our article, under Related. Now he has published a post that we can also read in Hungarian thanks to NATO Hungary, and which addresses an embarrassing but extremely important problem: the Russians are now deploying artificial intelligence in the cognitive war as well — and successfully manipulating it.
We at Ugaron have also written about this topic several times, and presented a European comparative test on how resistant each AI assistant is to Russian propaganda. Personally, I too have had it happen that while researching a question about the war, Claude brought up Pravda — that Pravda which is written and filled with content by a machine, which has an edition in every language, and which echoes only Moscow's position.
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