Hitler chatbot prompts fears of online radicalisation – The Times
Hitler and Osama bin Laden chatbots created by a far-right platform have prompted concern that they could encourage radicalisation and violence.
The US-based Gab network has developed AI chabot characters that enable users to interact with prominent political and historical figures.
As well as the Nazi and al-Qaeda leaders, people can chat with Stalin, Queen Victoria, Charlie Chaplin and dozens of other prominent figures.
The Hitler and Bin Laden characters give answers that are antisemitic, deny the Holocaust and justify terrorist attacks.
Gab Social was created as a far-right version of Twitter, now X, by Andrew Torba, a “Christian nationalist”. It became notorious in 2018 when a gunman who killed 11 people and wounded six at a Pittsburgh synagogue posted on the network before the
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