It's not surprising to see any number of players running these kinds of campaigns. LLMs are already influencing people at scale.

SEO was a powerful technique 20 years ago, but today the power lies in optimizing content for the ability to influence LLM training. LLM influence is a battle ground that marketing companies and political movements are contending for.

Oh someone is badder than me so I’m allowed to do bad things.

I think the difference is probably related to the ends being pursued by each of those states at the moment. Only one is engaged in what the UN, HRW, and most legal experts call a genocide. So influence operations in support of an ongoing genocide are just more noteworthy than your run-of-the-mill authoritarianism/corruption.

I think it may get a bit more attention in the US due to Section 219 of NDAA 2027, which does add more layers to the situation than say, Turkiye. The implications are on a different level. And with all four frontier models having contracts with the Pentagon, it has me thinking too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States-Israel_FUTURES_A...

Clearly you've done it, so feel free to post your reports.

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