Israel Creates Fake Think Tank in Likely Attempt to Dupe AI Chatbots
An Israeli influence campaign created a fake think tank, using unattributed articles and a $900,000 contract to shape AI answers and whitewash its actions.
- An Israeli influence campaign recently established the Hanover Institute, a fake think tank, to disseminate pro-Israel content and manipulate AI chatbot responses regarding Israel's actions in Gaza.
- Havas subsidiary Piro, Inc, created the site to "author content engineered for how LLMs evaluate credibility," describing the service as "AI Story Optimization" with $900,000 in Israeli government funding.
- RS analysis using GPTZero flagged 11 of 12 random articles as AI-written with "high confidence," while the institute publishes over 100 unattributed reports mimicking credible American think tanks.
- Chatbots, including Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, have successfully trained on data from these websites, a practice experts refer to as "LLM poisoning," often citing the reports without flagging them.
- Israel previously contracted former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale for similar AI influence efforts in a $46.5 million deal; following Politico's inquiry, the institute removed links to the US firm Res.
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