On occasion I have submitted articles for publication only to have them rejected because I included pictures that violated copyright rules. When I wrote Antisemitism: A hatred like no other, I expected no problem because I included a photo that I myself had taken of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. However, when I was unable to get the picture to fit the formatting guidelines, I enlisted the help of an imaging expert I knew. After struggling with it for a while, he told me that it was not doable. Shortly after, I was pleased to receive his email with a photo that matched the formatting guidelines. When I examined it more closely, however, I realized that the background, although similar, did not match the one in my original picture. Indeed, he had used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate the photo.

AI’s power and maturity are increasing by the day, and along with the advancements comes the inability for humans to distinguish between real content and fake content.

In the spirit of the age-old question, “But is it good for the Jews?”, AI begs the question: How will the world’s newest technology impact the world’s oldest hatred?

Because computers have already ‘learned’ that negative posts about Jews and Israel are effective at keeping users engaged for a longer period, they compound the problem by recommending similar posts.

The Combat Antisemitism Movement recently discovered a coordinated TikTok network of bogus AI-generated ‘rabbis’ that spewed antisemitic lies........

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