{"id":85144,"date":"2023-10-31T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/battling-anti-israel-hate-with-ai-bots\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:41:48","slug":"battling-anti-israel-hate-with-ai-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/battling-anti-israel-hate-with-ai-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s battle against misinformation and hate is overwhelming on most days.<\/p>\n

During a war, it goes on overdrive.<\/p>\n

By last measure, online anti-Semitism has spiked by a massive 1200% since October 7th<\/p>\n

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 and under-equipped.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re used to relying on the IDF spokesperson, Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a smattering of PR networks in America to counter a monstrous and well-funded propaganda and misinformation engine in Iran, Gaza, Russia and other state-sponsored centers of Jew hate.<\/p>\n

Since October 7th<\/sup>, there are certainly more Israelis and Jews than ever constantly posting, reposting, commenting, debating and otherwise engaging online to combat anti-Semitic and anti-Israel lies from the usual suspects.<\/p>\n

The online war is looking marginally better, but we\u2019re still starting far behind our enemies.<\/p>\n

Enter Zachary Bamberger, an American oleh, Cornell graduate and current Masters student at CS Taub.<\/p>\n

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When 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

—<\/p>\n

Have an awesome student or faculty or staff story to share with us about how they\u2019re (or you are) helping the war effort or on the home front?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We want to feature you!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email our English PR Manager, Yuri Kruman.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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":"\nBattling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/battling-anti-israel-hate-with-ai-bots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Battling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Israel\u2019s battle against misinformation and hate is overwhelming on most days. 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