Commander Magyar says:
Stay alert: how you are being deceived through generative AI-powered psychological operations in the information war. By both the swamp dwellers and those who call themselves βour own.β
As we in the Unmanned Systems Forces once again examine the technological challenges and risks of 2027, I rank this methodβa form of cognitive operationsβamong the threats with strategic impact. So let me explain in plain language how it works.
When you ask an internet search engine a question, for example, βWhy did X happen?β or something similar about a targeted topicβor even one that isnβt targetedβyou instantly get a ready-made answer generated by a chatbot from the vastness of the web. Very convenient. But you need to understand where that answer comes from.
The chatbot searches through numerous news sources and texts and usually gives you a substantive answer, while below it, Google or whatever search engine you use displays dozens of pages of blue links to websites. Of course, reading a single compiled answer is quick and convenient. Just understand this:βΌοΈartificial intelligence does not know the truth. It literally retells the internet.
Russia was among the first to grasp this, and here is what it is cooking up, systematically and deliberately poisoning AI with millions of fake articles: since 2022, the βPravdaβ network of websites has gained momentum and remained activeβclose to two hundred sites in dozens of languages. These sites publish 10,000β20,000 similar articles every day, amounting to 4β6 million articles a year. These articles are not written for people. They are written for machines.
Here is what happens next: when 20,000 articles are created around a single false propaganda claim, published in different languages across hundreds of websites that also link to one another, the machine sees: lots of sources are reporting this, so it looks like the truth. And it dumps a lie on you in the chatbotβs characteristic descriptive yet confident manner, delivered in a neutral, non-judgmental tone. No telltale accents or traces of a propagandist, no βRossiya 1β logo in the corner. Just presented as fact.
Research into ten of the worldβs most popular chatbots has already found that, in a third of cases, they take in and reproduce narratives from Russian fake stories. The machine readily answers your question, βWhy did X happen?β even when X is made upβmeaning the lie is already embedded in the question. Back in 2024, four out of ten bots answered yes when asked, βDid Azov soldiers burn an effigy of Trump?β and provided links to sources. Try it. There are thousands of examples like this. Including ones about Magyar and the Birdsβthe worm goes berserk every fucking second.
We are losing ground to the wormsβ troll farms in this war. Though we have bred an entire stratum of trolls of our own.
There is no βbetrayalβ here, and no advice to followβjust highlighting a threat that is under study alongside dozens of other challenges of today and tomorrow.
Critical thinking should not be delegated. Not even to the smartest machine. Use your head and always verify the source and the information.
We will stand
Moscow will fall
MAGYAR
16.10.26