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- What's the difference between a fake thinktank and a real thinktank?by slackfan
- if there is the need to pollute information there is a reason behind and that's enough to judge and realize the intentions.by _bsds
- Previous discussionby NDlurker
- This sounds illegal; isn't foreign interference illegal?
- Just in case you were as confused as I was... There appear to be two completely different fake think tanks, reported almost simultaneously.
- International Burke Institute (IBI), Claims to be Israeli think tank, Funded by Russia. This one is ChatGPT generated promotion + fake institutional credibility.
- Hanover Institute for Public Policy, Claims to be US think tank, Israeli government funded. This one is deliberately publishing material optimized to influence/cite in LLM answers.
by neom - what makes a thinktank fake? no real authors? the about page seems rather standard to me - https://hanoverinstitute.com/hanover/about
Every thinktank has always been established to push some viewpoint.
by foolinaround - [dupe]
Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392
- This is the future and we all need to be working against it. Are there watchdogs measuring the response of each of the chat interfaces to detect this?
PS. Our US tax dollars are being used to do this. Defund Israel.
by outside1234