Israel has spent at least $100 million since 2023 to influence opinions in the U.S., according to Politico, and $1 billion globally, with some of that money going specifically to seed pro-Israel information on the internet in an effort to get picked up by AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. The technique to inject information into LLMs is commonly called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a cousin of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and isn’t just used by Israel, of course. But a PR firm working for the country appears to have utilized an opaque think tank called the Hanover...
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