"Simplifying scientific material too much in order to fit the short video format, however, may have unintended consequences. That's according to a new study in Frontiers Psychology, led by the University of Cologne's Sara Salzmann. Her team looks at short, entertaining online science videos, finding that the most easily understood video summaries can lead people to feel more confident in their own ability to evaluate the study themselves, even if they had no specialist knowledge."
"The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods.
A study of 10 leading AI chatbots by the disinformation watchdog NewsGuard found that they repeated falsehoods from the Pravda network more than 33 percent of the time, advancing a pro-Moscow agenda."
