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New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:21:29 +0000

The state of Israel.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:48:34 +0000

What would you count as sufficient evidence of genocidal intent, then?

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:05:13 +0000

>> China

> Because they would be the ones to know?[1]

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

Just so I understand correctly, are you implying here that you consider the persecution of Uyghurs a genocide?

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:23:52 +0000

They also say "We weren’t able to survey enough Muslims to show how their views differ by age", so I guess the number of Jews isn't that much below 2,483. According to Gemini that already gives +-2% margin of error, which sounds good enough to me.

> Even so, I don't know if I would characterize 54 to 47 as viewing as "abhorrent" as OP said.

Agreed, also not quite "closed ranks" though. Exactly in between I guess.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:27:57 +0000

"47% of [American] Jews now view the Israeli government favorably, down from 54% [in 2024]."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07/09/americans...

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:57:29 +0000

Given the trajectory where US reputation is headed [0], I'm afraid your comment might have the opposite of your intended effect.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/07/15/people-in-many...

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:09:09 +0000

The article doesn't say that the work disfavors the party line, just that they don't always align perfectly. Which isn't that surprising considering that governments make self-contradictory statements all the time (consider Trump, for example).

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:36:48 +0000

That's tomorrow's problem. Losing the PR war is an existential crisis for Israel, so they'll try to "patch the leak" by any means necessary before the boat sinks.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

manyaoman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:54:55 +0000

This fraud is convincing enough to trick the LLMs, but pretty obvious to humans who will eventually come up with countermeasures. Moving forward, watch for some well-established think tanks starting to specialize in slopaganda laundering.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions"

manyaoman — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:49:46 +0000

Whataboutstrawmanism.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions"

manyaoman — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:38:57 +0000

At first I thought this sounds silly and basic sockpuppeting or Wikipedia editing would give better ROI. However, on the other hand this might be more subtle and therefore cause less blowback (ie. fewer people noticing and being annoyed). Pretty clever.

New comment by manyaoman in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

manyaoman — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:51:02 +0000

This. Even before LLMs it was well understood that you don't really understand a program unless you wrote it yourself. There's just no shortcut for it.

New comment by manyaoman in "U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators"

manyaoman — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:59 +0000

Vicious. Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel wants the region in flames.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:05:39 +0000

Start with teaching Israel supporters that IOF is not the answer. And maybe, maybe after that people start seeing Israelis as victims. Without it, most people will continue supporting Palestine, not because they think that it does no wrong. But in comparison with IOF and their supporters Palestine is lesser evil.

Fixed that for you.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:45:57 +0000

Take a look at the report, it's all in there.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:22:01 +0000

You kind of went around my question but I appreciate the insight, that's new to me.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:10:02 +0000

It's not just the raw suffering but also the sense of systematic oppression between groups that triggers people. Yemen or Sudan don't get nearly enough attention because most people find those conflicts harder to understand in terms of "good and evil" than the Israel-Palestine conflict.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:04:00 +0000

> Does Israel has the intent of genocide? I don't think so.

Just curious: is there a (hypothetical) red line that Israel would have to cross for you to be convinced? If not, you're biased.

New comment by manyaoman in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

manyaoman — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:22:33 +0000

> they can then just go and progrom all the Jews in Israel

If that's really Iran's intent, how do you explain that ~10,000 Jews live peacefully in Iran?

New comment by manyaoman in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

manyaoman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:08:03 +0000

If by biased you mean I care more about certain issues than others, then you're correct.