错误信息加速器

To misinformation researchers, AI is a scourge —and a powerful new tool KAI KUPFERSCHMIDT I n September 2023, researchers investigating a Russian dis- information campaign noticed a sudden change in a fake news website they’d been tracking. The outlet, DC- Weekly.org, normally cribbed entire articles from sources such as Fox News, changing the name of the journalist and little else. The real stories were meant to provide cover for Russia to launch an occasional, meticulously produced fake story, such as a hit piece on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—a technique called narra- tive laundering. “They’re building a forest so they can hide one particular tree right there,” says Morgan Wack, a political communications scholar at the University of Zürich. …