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.
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.
This is why having many options for models is so important. If we end up in a world where there’s only 2 AI providers because of “safety”, we will have a deeply dystopian situation where the truth is based on whoever controls or is able to manipulate the AI’s best.
Ah yes, Israel has really thrown all of its economical and technological might behind this campaign to the tune of $100k. It was either this or another nuclear sub.
Israel has thrown billions into campaigns like this. It's just that they don't go with a bell and announce all of them even tho they are stupid enough to brag about all the other crimes.
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.
Why tf would Israel, supposedly "surrounded by enemies" need military gains in Lebanon, a sovereign country, or in Gaza, which doesn't even have an army?
By "it has to" you mean that the only way to keep their narative afloat is to try to manipulate public opinion?
And the decade prior to that the IDF would do random incursions and kidnap and shoot a few dozen people at a time in Gaza while it allowed settler terrorists in the West Bank to steal homes and land and you guys always ignore that aspect.
It is bad faith to use Ben Gvir as a representative for Israel, let alone Israelis. He received less than 5% of the votes for parliament and only got to his ministerial position due to the extortive nature of the Israeli political system.
This is a guy who was incarcerated and barred from holding any kind of position for a very long time.
You could use many other moderate Israeli politicians, but you chose to bring the one who 95% of the Israeli electorate will not vote for.
Ben Gvir is the minister of national security and has been for years. He literally is a representative of Israel. He may not represent the views of Israelis, but he is in power, and is using that power. That makes him a relevant example, as relevant as the day is long.
Ben Gvir is the minister responsible for domestic security (primarily police, firefighters etc), with no effect (beyond his position in the coalition) on the warfare policy in Lebanon or Gaza. He's not even responsible for Shin Bet (that's the Prime Minster). So while he can spew that rhetoric for his voter base, he can not take any action affecting how the war is conducted. Therefore whatever he said may be used to attest on the man and possibly his voters, but that's not the voice of the Government of Israel nor is it representative of the Israeli public.
How is a member of the Israeli government not considered to be a representative of the government of Israel? It's tautologically true that he represents Israel. And yes indeed many of his opinions do represent a huge portion of Israeli public opinion.
The genocide in Gaza is one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of recent times. One might argue that it's OT and I'm ready to entertain the idea (even though in this case I think the post is heavily HN-adjacent) but surely the size of the country doesn't mean anything in this context?
Personally, I find raising awareness on the topic in a respectable manner a valid and worth form of activism.
Israel's PR problem is that social media lets Israelis who are proud of their terrorism, war crimes, genocide, rapes, and torture go talk about how moral it is to murder children.
thr Israeli government has a more more challenging job than any other SEO since its adversarial with itself, and has to make sure that no israelis who took part in these great moral wars get included talking about how great and moral it is that they got the top score for children's head shots.
