In the last few days I've seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to.

Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran.

The Canary reports:

"An Israel-based AI firm, Generative AI for Good, claims to be using deepfake technologies for positive ends. 'Positive' appears to mean creating deepfake videos to help the illegal US-Israel war on Iran.

"Generative AI for Good claims that it uses AI to 'help survivors testify safely?—?in their real voice, without revealing their identity'. But Israel and its mouthpieces have been shown to have used false allegations of rapes and other atrocities on 7 October 2023 to justify its genocide in Gaza."

The Canary notes that Generative AI for Good is staffed with Israelis who have very conspicuous agendas, including a creative director who pushes the discredited narrative about mass rapes on October 7, a marketing manager who served in the IDF's "Psychotechnical Headquarter", and a founder who said in early 2024 that "Artificial intelligence is a secret weapon of ours" in using the revolutionary technology to bolster the military's efforts both online and on the ground in the information war being waged alongside the military battlefields in Gaza.

An Israeli company generating AI videos of anonymous Iranian women describing sexual abuse at the hands of their government should obviously be considered a deceitful propaganda operation until proven otherwise. The line between using AI to help real victims protect their identities when describing real events and using AI to generate fake atrocity propaganda is far too nebulous to be taken seriously, especially in the hands of wildly biased Israelis. You should trust it about as far as you'd trust a hungry crocodile.

Secondly, users of the graphic design platform Canva have been complaining that the company's AI service has been translating the word "Palestine" to "Ukraine" without prompting or permission. Complaints went viral, compelling Canva to address the issue.

The Verge reports:

"One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature?—?which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components?—?isn't supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to automatically switch the phrase 'cats for Palestine' to 'cats for Ukraine.'

"The issue was seemingly limited specifically to the word 'Palestine,' as @ros_ie9 noted that related words like 'Gaza' were unaffected by the feature. Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again."