Israel Funds $100,000 LLM Influence Campaign on Gaza, as ChatGPT Already Cites Its Content
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Updated · POLITICO · Aug 14
Israel Funds $100,000 LLM Influence Campaign on Gaza, as ChatGPT Already Cites Its Content
1 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Aug 14
Summary
$100,000 in newly filed FARA documents shows Israel used Havas Media and subcontractor Piro to create and distribute pro-Israel material aimed at shaping how LLMs answer questions about Gaza and the IDF.
Hanover Institute for Public Policy articles posed search-style prompts such as whether the IDF is “the world’s most moral army,” a format the report says is designed to feed source material into chatbots.
ChatGPT and Perplexity already cited Hanover Institute content in test queries, while the site disclosed it was distributed by Piro for Havas Media Germany on behalf of Israel’s government advertising agency, LaPam.
Piro said it was hired to place accurate, sourced facts into the public record, but unlike earlier filings tied to a $46.5 million Havas-linked effort using Brad Parscale’s firm, its filings did not explicitly say influencing LLMs was the goal.