Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
- 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 presented as neutral research.
- The New York media production company Piro Inc filed the site with the US justice department this month under the Foreign Agents Registration Ac
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- 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 presented as neutral research.
- The New York media production company Piro Inc filed the site with the US justice department this month under the Foreign Agents Registration Ac
Sources: Guardian