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Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign
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In brief
An AI system built by Perplexity, Openai and 2 others and deployed by Piro Inc., Israel Government Advertising Agency and 5 others allegedly harmed Public Discourse Integrity, Perplexity Users and 5 others.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 2 reports
What happened
An Israeli government-backed communications campaign reportedly operated a website presenting itself as the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, despite reporting finding no corresponding established think tank. The site published material designed for chatbot retrieval, and testing found ChatGPT and Perplexity citing Hanover content in neutral queries.
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News reports (2)
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Who was involved
- Alleged harmed party
- Public Discourse Integrity, Perplexity Users, General Public Of The United States, General Public, Epistemic Integrity, Chatgpt Users, Chatbot Users
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Source record: incident #1659 on the AI Incident Database · all 2 reports