The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on American technology companies to ban their artificial intelligence models from relying on information from propaganda allegedly posted online by a registered agent of the Israeli government in an attempt to manipulate AI platforms with genocidal denial and anti-Palestinian bias.
Drop Site News reported that former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is allegedly overseeing an operation that regularly posts hundreds of propaganda blog posts on behalf of Israel. Parscale and his firm, Clock Tower X, allegedly created the posts not to be read by the public, but as part of a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to try and influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT.
SEE: Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It’s Working.
In a statement, CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“We call on all technology companies to prevent their artificial intelligence models from being manipulated by Clock Tower X’s reported propaganda campaign. Mr. Parscale, a registered foreign agent of Israel, is allegedly working to sabotage Americans’ sources of information by manipulating AI training. This is unacceptable and dangerous. It is also telling that the Israeli government and its agents have been forced to resort to such measures to try to manipulate public opinion. The American people have seen clearly that the Israeli government is guilty of engaging in genocide and other human rights abuses with American taxpayer dollars. Tech companies cannot allow themselves to be instrumentalized to lie about the Gaza genocide and launder Israel’s reputation.”
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, [email protected]; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, [email protected]