Israel-backed website seeks to shape AI chatbot answers
The campaign published 124 reports and 560,000 words, according to The Guardian, as researchers said the material was built to influence AI citations.
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Israel Is Gaming AI Chatbots Via Fake Think Tank
The Guardian reports: A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. The site gives Israel’s position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all …
Israel-backed website seeks to shape AI chatbot answers
An Israeli-created and -funded website presented as a US policy institute has published more than 120 reports on Israel and Palestine as part of a communications campaign designed in part to shape information retrieved by artificial intelligence systems, according to US filings and investigations by The Guardian and Responsible Statecraft. The website, called the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, publishes research-style material on Gaza, ant…
The materials concerned topics such as the war in Gaza, allegations of genocide, war crimes, the starvation of Palestinians, and anti-Semitism. The website presented them in a form reminiscent of academic papers and provided copious sources. However, the "institute" itself—according to the British newspaper—does not exist as a registered organization, providing no physical address, names of employees, or authors of publications. The way the text…
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