How Artificial Intelligence LLM Engines Shape the Global Conflict Information Environment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) answer engines now field a growing share of the questions that analysts, scholars, and the public ask about issues of peace and conflict. Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to hallucinate under certain conditions, but do these errors have discernible patterns when they are asked about conflicts, and if so what can that teach us about the changing global conflict information environment? To answer, we first asked a battery of questions about 28 conflicts to five leading answer engines and scored their 5,460 answers against documented evidence. We found that the thinner the retrievable record around a given conflict, the more the engines invent, misattribute...
| Authors | Jason Miklian |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 15 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 October 2026 |
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