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.
“This material is distributed by Piro, Inc. on behalf of Havas Media Germany GmbH on behalf of the Israel Government Advertising Agency (LaPam).”
- farseer
Wow, just a few minutes ago this made it to the frontpage, and look at the freshly created accounts trying to discredit it. Evil requires constant effort to mask it.
- skeledrew
This kind of thing was always bound to happen, and it's nicely helped along by the other side that somehow has the many who are against AI accessing their content. So narratives will eventually become extremely skewed over time as entities with an agenda push propaganda for AI to scoop up while the other side does it's best to block/poison said AI. Eventually that propaganda becomes the undisputed "facts" for the increasing many doing research with AI.
- manyaoman
At first I thought this sounds silly and basic sockpuppeting or Wikipedia editing would give better ROI. However, on the other hand this might be more subtle and therefore cause less blowback (ie. fewer people noticing and being annoyed). Pretty clever.
- Protostome
Al-Jazeera is a state sponsored propoganda channel that is masquarading as a legitimate news channel in the US, and no one has a problem with that.
- ecommerceguy