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letterwriter's avatar

I'm not sure what to make of this. I thought it has been shown that AI can't handle novel problems, therefore its analysis of any evolving situation will be incomplete, right? History does not repeat. It only rhymes; it is inherently novel to a nontrivial degree.

eta 1: Also, while I hesitate to share this since it is written in English and therefore intended for western audiences, I want to draw attention to a paragraph in this Israeli article about hasbara https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/06/can-israel-win-the-narrative-war/

"However, even this official admits a vast gap exists against what Israel needs on the hasbara front, compounded by the next challenge: AI. If information about Israel once stemmed from news sites or Wikipedia (where antisemitism has also spread), today it is consumed via AI tools, which **must be calibrated with Israel's story before it's too late**. "These are not just tools that shape reality but also describe history in its entirety," said the official."

Emphasis mine.

The article should be read with an extreme setting on one's hermeutics of suspicion. For example, when it's claimed that government funding has gone unspent on hasbara, do not take that as meaning that hasbara isn't happening or isn't funded by other means. Every noun, verb, conjugation, and also absence of words, must be deeply evaluated in any Zionist public-facing statement. There is a constant effort to say things in ways that establish Zionist or Israeli innocence, pluckiness, absence of coordinated effort, etc. The underlying motivation is deeply cultural and affects even "anti-Zionist" Israelis or their foreign fellow travelers.

I will also mention that I have first-hand seen someone putting content through an AI analysis and that AI completely failed to acknowledge elements of the content which directly spoke to Israel's aggressions. It simply produced a summary that didn't refer to it in any way.

eta 2: Another substacker here has recently published AI evaluations which showed that prompts had to be carefully crafted and iterated, in order to get the AI to acknowledge Israeli misdeeds.

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Influence through Confluence's avatar

Absolutely agreed to your eta 2. I have experimented this on ChatGPT. Carefully crafting questions with sometimes enough nuance and sometimes broad strokes (it’s like using HB to 6B pencils while doing portraitures if you know what I mean) ChatGPT eventually agrees to the fact that Israeli military often violates international laws and commits war crimes, Israel’s policies are apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. I mean all of these statements are factually correct and have been researched extensively by the human rights groups but it’s still an exercise to feed the AI to train its models so it learns to defeats the Hasbara.

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

I personally recommend ditching ChatGPT by this point -- some while ago I found its "Jesuitical" degradation into piles of all-things-to-all-men pumped-up sensationalistic emoji-stuffed fakery too obnoxious to handle while DeepSeek tends to not only candidly cut to the point succinctly but also provide more precise information without inventing lies out of nowhere to the sheer extent ChatGPT does. (I used to assume DeepSeek was too CPC-friendly and narrow-"minded" to be useful, but it turns out I just had to use it extra-carefully and it's a better tool that ChatGPT at this point, so it would appear)

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

I quite loathe ai - I think I have said...LOL! - because it's programmed to pander. Still and all, a very good analysis!

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tru3's avatar

I am firmly convinced that Iran has always been a rook in the City’s Great Game of chess designed to expose Russia’s southern flank.

The Game continues apace.

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

The Russian dimension is -- excellent point -- definitely a vital piece of the puzzle to bring up here, tru3. By all indications, Russia and Iran jointly sat back and watched as Assad was toppled last year, and the same Kremlin supposedly diametrical enemies of the "Syrian" salafi jihadists mutually vowing the objective of each other's destruction has since Dec. 2024 been "strangely" diplomatic towards rebranded al-Qaeda/al-Nusra a.k.a. "HTS."

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Thanks for your enormous amount of experience, knowledge and time put into this analysis with assistance from AI 👍👍👍 🔥🔥🔥 !!!

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

Thank you, Klaus, glad you found this posting of value!

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Truth101's avatar

Sorry but what does exploding bed refer to ?

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

Minecraft reference.

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

I wouldn't pay any serious attention to the narrative of "Jesuits as crypto-Jews." It's removed from the workings of reality when you study the Annunaki religio-imperial cult inculcated in the ancient priesthoods of Assyria and Babylon transferred via Pergamum syncretists to the Roman elite passed onto the Templars, whose heritage was carried onwards by the Jesuits and Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

The actual world elites are utterly hostile to Mosaic Judaism. They only invent a faked, Kabbalistic version of "Judaism" to mislead the outer masses.

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🍓Grub Street In Exile's avatar

Could almost be a chapter within a book, perhaps 1984?

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overflowing ashtray's avatar

What utter horseshit.

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