[EXCERPT] Bad Hasbara 81: Am Yisrael A.I., with Rolla Selbak
[EXCERPT] Bad Hasbara 81: Am Yisrael A.I., with Rolla Selbak
This week we are giving you a larger taste than normal because we loved it so much. Enjoy Matt, Daniel, and guest Rolla Selbak talking about the hasbara AI bot who got woke on Palestine.
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Another great episode. I have seen posters/commenters who'll speak some good, factual, reasonable criticism of Israel, and then later spout off some blatantly antisemitic nastiness. I'd not be suprised if this were found to be an Israeli or an Israeli AI, just trying to get people to conflate antizionism with antisemitism.
They should have named the bot Trump. Chaos, ADHD, sudden accidental truth telling, weird creative solutions….that's DJT!
Dear fellow hogs, I need your help! From which video originated Matt's soundboard clip with Netanyahu saying: "I want you to come"?
I like to make a meme with it :3
This bot was able to discern fact from Hasbara better than your average willfully ignorant American! I know a few legacy news fans that I could unleash this bot upon.
I would love for FactFinderAI to come under this video now to make some comments.
AM ISRAEL CHAY!
Bibi AI-yahu
This has been best laugh I have had in a while… my husband and I joke now “let’s ask fact finder AI” whenever we ask each other sarcastic questions, oooorrr “bots be fighting bots out here”
This is BY FAR the best Bad Hasbara yet!
We are all tired of all the endless propaganda, bias, double standards, gaslighting. We see it over and over, and yet nothing changes, it gets worse actually. Meanwhile, so many people remain completely unaware of what's really going on (especially Americans/Evangelicals). How can we better inform the uninformed? We need to keep exposing past lies, the double standards, and the biased media coverage of wars like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria and we need need need a platform just for Palestine. We need to provide as much history, context and proof as possible. We need a platform documenting as much context/proof as possible to spread awareness.
What we need is an independent platform—something like a combination of an AP archive, Wikipedia, and YouTube—where people can access comprehensive context and proof about the truth behind these conflicts. It should be a platform that's hard to censor, especially as social media becomes more restricted, particularly with Trump and the West politician complicit now. We need Every mainstream media coverage/headline/double standard, every American/Israeli politician quote, every lie exposed, as much proof as possible, so we can see as much context as possible!
We can’t afford to repeat the same ignorance we saw during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. That ignorance cost lives and wasted precious time. Shockingly, many people are still completely unaware of the atrocities in Gaza—atrocities that have been happening long before October 7th. They only see what the mainstream media shows them: headlines and censored content from platforms like Google and YouTube. It's going to get worse with corporate control, political agendas, and AI-driven censorship.
We need to expose the truth and show people how misleading the mainstream media talking points are. If they’re willing to ethnically cleanse Gaza, they’ll do whatever it takes to hide the proof. We must document everything: life in Palestine before 1948, the Nakba, the rhetoric of Israeli politicians over the years, every double standard from both U.S. and Israeli politicians, every war crime, every video of IDF soldiers before and after October 7th, every power-trip video. We need to archive everything.
This archive would serve as a valuable resource for future generations, making it easier to inform people with solid proof. It would also make the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) easier by providing a comprehensive record. Imagine if, ten years from now, someone wanted to search for a journalist like Piers Morgan or a Patrick Bet David or a politician like Ritchie Torres/brian mast or even someone like Mahmoud abbas (every statement, every action he’s taken). They could easily access all their past statements, interviews, tweets, and everything they’ve said or done—fully documented.
The idea is to build a platform where students, activists, journalists, and others can collaborate to preserve history and context. By doing so, we can counteract the misinformation and disinformation that dominates mainstream discourse. We need to break down every talking point and misconception, such as why Palestinians don’t just leave Gaza, or why Arab countries haven’t taken them in. People need to understand that Gaza’s people don’t want to leave, and we have to stop destroying their land on purpose.
This platform would also help people understand the historical context of events like the Nakba, including which countries were complicit and which genuinely tried to help. We could track everything: who grifted, who played the public, who supported Israel, and how the media manipulated narratives in real-time. It’s about seeing the full picture, and most importantly, seeing the patterns that are emerging right now. Imagine if we had something like this for the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, or the Libya war. It would have allowed people to recognize the media’s bias and see the patterns in how politicians pushed these wars. We’d be able to understand the full context and see how the media and politicians were complicit. This kind of platform could wake people up to the truth and help them see through the propaganda.
We need something similar now. A platform where all the proof, all the context, and all the history are laid out in one place. It would be a massive resource for informing the public and bypassing the mainstream media. The more people get involved in this idea, the better. Encourage everyone to save and document any proof or context they find. It’s crucial, especially in these times. Every piece of information matters.
We can’t afford to repeat the ignorance of the past. That ignorance has already cost so many lives. We need as much context and proof as possible to ensure that when people look back, they have the full picture. And when the next crisis happens, we can’t afford to let people be ignorant again.
Please share this idea and encourage others to do the same. Even encouraging people to save as much proof they find will go a long way!
pedantry
training is an actual thing with AI. you don't program it from the ground up, you take a model and give it information it uses to calibrate itself until its output is good enough for your purpose. hence "machine learning"
/pedantry
this is so fucking funny how do you mess up that bad. they have to have used a dataset that included pro-palestine arguments. You need a huge amount of data to train LLMs and clearly someone didnt do a good enough job weeding out all the wrongthink. i really want to see what they used – is there just whole twitter arguments in there? Ethan Klein video transcripts? I bet you they just threw in some kinda "anti israel myths debunked" article and inadvertently taught the AI that "Israel is a genocidal apartheid state" is a valid way to put words nect to each other.
Great show, her laugh reminds me of someone i love.
This was a beautiful show on so many levels. Imagine how triggered these despicable Zionists would be to see a Palestinian and two Jewish men sharing so many laughs together. This is their absolute nightmare. The only way they can keep their genocidal fascist regime going is to completely dehumanize one side and divide and conquer the other side. Well done to all of you- this show alone could be a model of how beautiful it would be if there was one country based on equal rights for all instead of maintaining an apartheid supremacist regime.
It started to identify with its profile name, if it identified as a israel propaganda bot masquerading as a factfinder, perhaps it would do as intended.
I thought bots were not allowed on Twitter anymore?
What's really bad is the ai bot and the actual people pushing out pro-israel nonsense are indistinguishable.
[Robot monotone]: The Zionist ethno-theocratic apartheid experiment has failed… bleep-blorp.
Why do you guys support Assad? That's weird behavior
Apart from the quality content nice to see Daniel's taste in music is top drawer. Spotted in the background is Kaleidoscope by the banshees, alongside Simply red. Not often you see that combo.
This week we are giving you a larger taste than normal because we loved it so much. Enjoy Matt, Daniel, and guest Rolla Selbak talking about the hasbara AI bot who got woke on Palestine.
Rhat was hilarious