“AI Story Optimization… author(s) content engineered for how LLMs evaluate credibility.”

The Hanover Institute has published over 100 reports since August 6 and does not exist. GPTZero flagged 11 of 12 sampled articles as machine-written with high confidence. The Israeli government paid $900,000 through Havas Media for this, and the contractor advertises the capability openly on its website. Propaganda used to target voters. Now it targets the training corpus, and it only has to fool a scraper.