2026/04/19 by Nataliya Roman, Nataliia Laba, John H. Parmelee · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies #Misinformation and Its Impacts
paper · doi:10.1177/17506352261435520
openalex publication_date 2026/04/19 · openalex created_date 2026/04/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/19
This qualitative content analysis conducted in November 2024 examines how four AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude – frame the Russia–Ukraine war. The chatbots generally utilized similar emphasis, tonality, and moral judgements as most US and European news organizations, with Russia framed as an “aggressor” and Ukraine as a victim of the aggression. These framing similarities were even more pronounced in outputs for Russian and Ukrainian identity-specific prompts. However, AI chatbots had a hard time contextualizing Russian government propaganda. Thus, AI chatbots are unreliable narrators, prone to bias and a superficial understanding of complex geopolitical realities. Until these fundamental issues of reliability and bias are resolved, AI chatbots as news sources should be treated with significant skepticism.