Israel Paying Millions to Influence AI Chatbots

Israel Paying Millions to Influence AI Chatbots Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is leading a $46.5 million Israeli government campaign to influence AI chatbots by publishing hundreds of pro-Israel articles across a network of websites. The sites are designed primarily for AI systems, not human readers. Parscale's contract explicitly aimed to shape "GPT conversations," and his team claims they are already seeing success. AI tools including Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and sometimes ChatGPT or Claude have cited these websites in responses about Gaza and U.S.-Israel relations. Some chatbots identified the sites as Israeli government-funded, while others did not. Source: Drop Site News