Russia -supporting misleading campaign uses artificial intelligence tools to feed the “content explosion”

The campaign of misinformation in support of Russia is to take advantage of the tools of artificial intelligence for consumers to feed the “content explosion” that focuses on exacerbating the current tensions on the global elections, Ukraine and immigration, among other controversial issues, according to what it said. A new research has been published last week.

The campaign, known by many names, including Excessive operations and Matroshka (Other researchers also linked them to Storm-1679It has been operating since 2023 and has been compatible with the Russian government by multiple groups, including Microsoft and Institute of Strategic Dialogue. The campaign publishes false accounts by impersonating the media personality with the apparent goal of cultivating the division in democratic countries. While the campaign targets the masses around the world, Including in the United StatesHis main goal was Ukraine. Hundreds of videos that were summarized from AI from the campaign attempted to feed the novels loyal to Russia.

The report shows how, between September 2024 and May 2025, the number of content is produced by those who manage the campaign significantly and receive millions of views around the world.

In their report, the researchers identified 230 unique pieces of the content that the campaign between July 2023 and June 2024, including photos, videos, QR symbols and fake web sites. Over the past eight months, the researchers have said that excess endurance over 587 unique pieces of content, with the creation of most of them with the help of artificial intelligence tools.

The researchers said that the height in the content was driven by the tools of artificial intelligence at the consumer level, which is available for free online. This easy access helped fuel the campaign tactic “combining content”, as those who manage the process can produce multiple parts of the content that drives the same story thanks to the artificial intelligence tools.

The researchers wrote in the report: “This represents a shift towards more propaganda tactics that are developing, multi -language and increasingly developing,” the researchers wrote in the report. “The campaign has increased the production of new content in the past eight months, indicating a shift towards the methods of creating faster and more developmental content.”

The researchers also amazed from a variety of tools and types of content that the campaign was following. “What was a surprise to me was the diversity of content, and the different types of content that they started using,” says Alexandra Atanasova, Reset Tech Open Source Intelligence Researcher, for WIRED. “It seems as if they have diversified their painting to arrest the largest possible number of different angles of these stories. They put different types of content, one by one.”

Atanasova added that the campaign does not use any dedicated tools for Amnesty International to achieve its goals, but it was using sound generators and images that can be accessed for all.

Although it was difficult to determine all the tools used by the campaign customers, researchers were able to narrow it to one tool in particular: Flux AI.

Flux AI is a text generator to a picture developed by Black Forest Labs, a German headquarters that was established by former AI employees for stability. Using a Sightingine image analysis tool, researchers found 99 percent likely that a number of fake images in which excess pregnancy campaign has been shared – some of which claimed that it shows riots for Muslim immigrants and prepared them in Berlin and Paris – created using images from Flux AI.