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With the prevalence ofgenerative AIand chatbots, misinformation is becoming more widespread.

Several social media accounts believed to belong to Chinese users have been spotted spreading politically concocted AI-generated information.

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Microsoft’s report complements the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s threat assessment of China.

What’s Microsoft doing to prevent the issue from becoming widespread?

Researchers indicated that the issue was systemic, after establishing a pattern.

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The chatbot had also been spotted providing false information about the election process in Germany and Switzerland.

But Microsoft has beenputting elaborate measures and ramping up it effortsto prevent this situation from spiraling out of control.

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