News
Single-Source Report Alleges Israel Paid Trump's Ex-Campaign Chief $46.5M to Shape ChatGPT Output on Gaza
IBTimes UK reports that Israel contracted a firm led by a former Trump campaign chief for $46.5 million on an influence campaign specifically targeting what AI chatbots say about Gaza. The story drew heavy social amplification (2,893 upvotes on r/ChatGPT, plus a Hacker News thread) but corroborating coverage from major outlets was not found, so treat the specifics as unverified. If accurate, it is one of the first documented cases of a state-funded influence operation targeting model outputs rather than social feeds — a materially different attack surface.
Source
↳ Follow the thread