Tarek Gara
I work in the seam where language meets machine.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Building Folio, Tayyar, and Thaghra. Writing at The Loop.
In a Cyber Politics & Government MA at TAU (thesis track, 2025 – 2027).
Now live · a playground
Tayyar The region's politics, on one map.
A political atlas of the Middle East & North Africa. Every party and public figure placed on shared axes, scored in the open by a transparent rater panel.
Explore the compassCurrently
what's holding my attention this week- Working
- multilingual AI quality at Innodata
- Building
- Folio, Tayyar, Thaghra
- Writing
- Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past
- Editing
- The Loop, monthly
- Studying
- an MA in Cyber Politics & Government at TAU (thesis track, 2025–2027)
Writing
long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow Aug 2026 Jul 2026 Jun 2026
The Bottleneck Is Not Compute
Saudi Arabia is buying AI infrastructure at historic scale, and a frustrated Saudi user just explained better than any analyst why the chips are the easy part: the Arabic training corpus is thin, half of it is translated English, and the model's own rules forbid it the conversations its users actually want.
LLM Grooming: Aiming Propaganda at the Machine
Russia is flooding the open web with propaganda engineered to be scraped into AI training data. The tactic is real and inexpensive; whether it actually changes what the models tell you is a harder and still unsettled question.
Who Decides What AI Calls True
The fear is about who can switch the models off. The real power is quieter, and harder to take back: who decides which version of the truth your AI serves you first.
The rest
books, ventures, playgroundsA letter, once a month.
Essays land here first, then I republish them as The Loop on LinkedIn.
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