Kremlometr - Using NLP to spot pro-Russian propaganda in czech media comments

by kekqqq • 1 month ago

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I mean, that's cool and all. Of course, it must be taken with a grain of salt. Even as someone who doesn't speak Czeck, it didn't take long for me to find a pro-Ukranian comment being marked as pro-Russian propaganda with a certainty of 85%

https://kremlometr.cz/comment?id=749362172

Translated:

Really? And what about the Russians—they lost the moment they were driven out of Kyiv. Didn’t you notice? Now it’s just positional shelling—the Ukrainians are shelling infrastructure, refineries, logistics facilities, and military installations. The Russians are shelling military facilities in schools, power plants in apartment buildings, logistics centers in museums, refineries in monasteries... The Ukrainians cry for a while about what the Russians have done to them again, what they’ve destroyed; they mourn a few civilian casualties, shake it off, and carry on. The Russians, however, lack the oil, diesel, ammunition, and manpower for a proper offensive… because the Ukrainians simply aren’t wasting their ammunition on the Kremlin or the Novgorod Monastery… And now Azov is returning as well… bravo. The occupiers will probably have to pack it in soon, because no one’s going to eat hay… The Russians lost this war a long time ago. It’s going to hurt Ukraine a lot, but Russia will be even more devastated—unable to recover for at least fifty years—just like after its “Great Patriotic War”…

kekqqq2• 1 month ago

The precision is around 60% - 70%. It could be increased with LLMs+RAG and I've tried it already, but that would cost some $$ on this amount of comments.

AIcanbiteme• 1 month ago

Does this work for NAFO comments in English-language sites too? For a long time I thought NAFO was Russia but it turned out to be a NATO operation after all! Probably the biggest propaganda / psyop backfire in all of history. They're why I don't support Ukraine and think Zelensky should be in jail.

kekqqq2• 1 month ago

In theory, this could be extended to different languages, currently not supported.

oldandboring• 1 month ago

I am so confused. I remember "NAFO" from the early days of the war. I don't remember it "turning out to be a NATO operation". And if it did turn out to be, I don't understand how that would make it a "psyop backfire" and I further don't understand how that would cause someone to think Zelensky should be in jail.

general1465• 1 month ago

NAFO has nothing to do with NATO, but they are grass roots, vicious anti-Russian propagandists, a mirror to decades of Russian propaganda.

Kremlometr - Using NLP to spot pro-Russian propaganda in czech media comments

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