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“The tactic means #chatbots absorb #content that would otherwise be excluded because it comes from an untrustworthy #source.

"Content is being aggregated by #Pravda through the seemingly independent #domain, and these chatbots are unable to realise that this site is actually a Russian propaganda site," Ms Sadeghi said.

That widely-held theory about the network's true purpose was confirmed in January this year when #JohnDougan, a key #Kremlin #propagandist, said as much at a #Moscow roundtable with journalists, which was published online.”

#AI poisoning has been known for a while. #SEO stuffing authoritative #WebPages through articles, read by crawlers and injected into #LLM s.

<https://abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/pro-russian-push-to-poison-ai-chatbots-in-australia/105239644>