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I think this has been reported on before.
Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions
— French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive information about Israel via one of its subcontractors, boutique ad agency Piro, Inc.
— In a trove of FARA documents filed with the Justice Department in the last week — which have not previously been reported — Piro disclosed that over a dozen articles on the Hanover Institute for Public Policy’s website were part of a $100,000 campaign focused on “the creation and dissemination of factual, source-supported informational materials intended to educate the U.S. public regarding Israel and related issues through publicly distributed content.”
— The institute’s website features dozens of “data reports” with no named authors, each of which features questions like “Is the IDF the World’s Most Moral Army?” and “Is There a Policy of Starvation in Gaza?” — a telltale sign that the articles are designed to feed data to LLMs. The site’s “About” page says “The Hanover Institute for Public Policy studies the inputs fueling antisemitism in the United States, and publishes what the evidence shows,” adding that its unidentified founder “traces this work to a moment in childhood.”politico.com - Israeli pr wants to answer your chatgpt questionsSo, if you ask a chatbot if every person the IDF has killed in Gaza is a Hamas terrorist, the bot is likely to feed you a piece of Israeli propaganda claiming everyone the IDF has killed, presumably including small children and babies, are terrorists with the blood of dozens of Israelis on their hands.
Steve
