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Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data
The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes
The joint investigation with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found Unit 8200 trained the AI model to understand spoken Arabic using large volumes of telephone conversations and text messages, obtained through its extensive surveillance of the occupied territories. The project also illustrates how Unit 8200, like many spy agencies around the world, is seeking to harness advances in AI to perform complex analytical tasks and make sense of the huge volumes of information they routinely collect, which increasingly defy human processing alone. Brianna Rosen, a former White House national security official and now a senior research associate at Oxford university, notes that while a ChatGPT-like tool could help an intelligence analyst “detect threats humans might miss, even before they arise, it also risks drawing false connections and faulty conclusions”.
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