Are Search Engines or AI Suppressing Revelations About U.S. Use of Bioweapons in the Korean War?
On February 8, The New York Times published a glowing story about how Microsoft’s Bing search engine had embraced “artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT.”
The Times reporter wrote, “I tested the new Bing for a few hours on Tuesday afternoon, and it’s a marked improvement over Google.”
So I decided to see how the new Bing would respond to a query about what is admittedly a very controversial subject: the alleged use of U.S. biological weapons against China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) during the Korean War.
I had my own reasons for testing Bing on this. I’ve been investigating the subject for a number of years. In September 2020, I published an article analyzing two dozen formerly top secret CIA communications reports that themselves quoted classified U.S. military intelligence intercepts of Communist military units reporting attacks by U.S. biological weapons, their effects, and the responses of such units to the attacks. I also posted the intercepts themselves, which were declassified in 2010.
For a blog post, the story was fairly successful, garnering over 15 thousand views to date, and a minimum of one thousand “reads.” The story…
