Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313477

foolinaround

what makes a thinktank fake? no real authors? the about page seems rather standard to me - https://hanoverinstitute.com/hanover/about Every thinktank has always been established to push some viewpoint.

WhereIsTheTruth

Israel? more like the UK with the help of China

mikelitoris

Who else but Quagmire

outside1234

This is the future and we all need to be working against it. Are there watchdogs measuring the response of each of the chat interfaces to detect this? PS. Our US tax dollars are being used to do this. Defund Israel.

neom

Just in case you were as confused as I was... There appear to be two completely different fake think tanks, reported almost simultaneously. - International Burke Institute (IBI), Claims to be Israeli think tank, Funded by Russia. This one is ChatGPT generated promotion + fake institutional credibility. - Hanover Institute for Public Policy, Claims to be US think tank, Israeli government funded. This one is deliberately publishing material optimized to influence/cite in LLM answers.

inigyou

Criticizing Israel isn't allowed on HN

slackfan

What's the difference between a fake thinktank and a real thinktank?

NDlurker

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392

josefritzishere

This sounds illegal; isn't foreign interference illegal?