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<\/a><\/div>\nWhen he saw what was happening on October 7th<\/sup>, he sprang into action.<\/p>\n
Using his prodigious talents in machine learning and love for debate, to fight the immediate onslaught of anti-Israel lies and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
Instead of reflexively jumping onto Facebook or other social media to fight from the keyboard, he started building.<\/p>\n
In only a few days, he enlisted the help of 40 Ph.D.s in his field to completely change the battlefield for social media disinformation.<\/p>\n
Imagine AI being able to instantly check whether a post violates the terms of service (TOS) of the specific platform where it\u2019s made.<\/p>\n
Imagine the ability to report said post on the spot.<\/p>\n
And if it doesn\u2019t violate the TOS, to instantly generate the best counterargument?<\/p>\n
Imagine instantly translating (with high quality) posts in Arabic and reporting them if anti-Israel and against the TOS.<\/p>\n
And just as importantly, what if non-Hebrew speakers could instantly translate all the posts by Israelis and understand what\u2019s really happening here?<\/p>\n
These are no longer aspirational, but an actual suite of tools launched by Zack\u2019s company.<\/p>\n
Covering APIs, AI-driven translators and other tools based on their proprietary large language model, it is already collaborating with some of the best-known experts in the field, including at AI21 Labs, Google, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n
What Zach and his team have created in 10 days is no less than an army of robots to massively increase the impact of pro-Israel efforts on social media.<\/p>\n
When deployed on a larger scale, this will most certainly shift the balance of content in the right direction and take away the advantage of numbers from our online enemies.<\/p>\n
We are proud to have Zach in the Technion family and wish him and his team tremendous success.<\/p>\n
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Israel\u2019s battle against misinformation and hate is overwhelming on most days. During a war, it goes on overdrive. By last measure, online anti-Semitism has spiked by a massive 1200% since October 7th When faced with a river of hate from legions of enemy countries and sympathizers, Israel\u2019s Hasbara (positive PR) efforts are chronically understaffed, under-funded… Continue Reading Battling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n