Israel's PR firm secretly feeds ChatGPT positive info about Gaza

Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions

A French PR firm, Havas Media, working for Israel, has set up a fake think tank called the Hanover Institute for Public Policy to feed large-language models like ChatGPT with pro-Israel content. The institute's website, filled with data reports and no named authors, is designed to influence AI answers about Gaza and the IDF. The campaign, disclosed under FARA, has already been cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity in responses to neutral queries.

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