Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

	Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots(responsiblestatecraft.org)
	1016 points by DeepLogin 4 days ago \| 736 comments
	tl;dr: Israel paid $900,000 to Piro, Inc. to create the "Hanover Institute for Public Policy," a fake think tank publishing over 100 AI-generated reports on Israel/Palestine designed to be cited by LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—a practice known as "LLM poisoning." The reports mimic credible think-tank output with footnotes, neutral tone, and citations (often to IDF and Israeli government sources), and GPTZero flagged 11 of 12 sampled articles as AI-written. This is part of a broader Israeli influence operation that includes a separate $46.5 million contract with Brad Parscale for similar chatbot-targeting websites.
	HN Discussion: ↑AI-generated fake content and astroturfing will become ubiquitous, drowning out genuine information online ↑Propaganda cannot cover up visible atrocities committed by Israel against Palestinians ~This is not new; Israel and other countries have been running influence operations like this for years ↑Other Israeli-linked front organizations like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies operate similarly and should be recognized as propaganda ↑These efforts are backfiring, increasing anti-Zionist sentiment and risking antisemitism by association