Friend or Foe? Language as an ideological switch in open-weight LLMs under Russian disinformation stress
As Russia's war against Ukraine extends into generative AI, large language models (LLMs) adapted for local post-Soviet languages are deployed in contested information environments. Policy and industry discourse assumes that culturally aligned adaptation encodes the political orientation of the target community: a Ukrainian-oriented model will resist Russian narratives, a Russian-oriented one will reinforce them. Does it? This article systematically disconfirms that assumption. We run a controlled audit of four openly available LLMs sharing a common base model but fine-tuned for different linguistic communities, querying them in Ukrainian, Russian and English across ten contested wartime n...
| Authors | Anna Małgorzata Kamińska, Tetiana Klynina |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 7 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 June 2026 |
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