A reminder for everyone that uses AI to fact check stuff about this war (don't do it)!

AI tools when researching are great to summarize text, it can translate it from other languages and let you find sources fast. Don't use it as facts though. And I think that many here and on the entire internet, does. It's not weird, it's just how people work.

For an example, the Genocide debunking report:
https://besacenter.org/debunking-the-genocide-allegationsa-reexamination-of-the-israel-hamas-war-2023-2025/

I have seen many people that are trying to use ChatGPT arguments to debunk that in different places on the internet, which aren't correct at all. This is important when using ChatGPT and other AI sources. Don't use it as facts, but it can do really great analyzes for you and compare numbers but you NEED to check stuff for yourself and think about the things it's trained on, a lot!

I will take three examples with the problems of asking AI stuff about this war:

1. When asking questions based on UN numbers, like with this report "Debunking the Genocide", is when something questioning the UN numbers you really, really have to tell AI that you want to questioning them. AI will always assumes that UN numbers are the correct one and you have to tell it if you want to questioning those assumptions like they do in this report. This is because it is trained to think those numbers are the most credible and those numbers are used most on the internet in comparisons.

If you do that change in question it can by it self actually check if the UN numbers are wrongly calculated or not, but that you can also calculate by yourself as easy if you just tried to look at the official UN documentation in this topic.

2. It also often uses Wikipedia as a source which is dangerous in this topic because it's under a well-known attack from mostly the pro palestine side who tries to change history, both in english but specially in arabic, and take away everything from the Jews has been through history.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/10/business/wikipedia-disrupted-by-edit-wars-to-manipulate-pages-on-war-in-gaza-report

https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/trump-admin-launches-probe-into-wikipedia-over-alleged-bad-actors

Wikipedia have also started a report site for abuses in this topic for this conflict and also this info site (read from 2023 to present): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

3. Worst of all. It uses us on reddit as sources, a lot in this conflict. Scary, huh? ;)

To summarize. Ask AI questions but take them as proof, please!