It’s time for another installment in our ongoing look at the future that will be brought to you thanks to the increasingly worrisome capabilities of artificial intelligence. Everyone is aware of the problem of fake news online, and now the OpenAI nonprofit backed by Elon Musk has developed an AI system that can create such convincing fake news content that the group is too skittish to release it publicly, citing fears of misuse. They’re letting researchers see a small portion of what they’ve done, so they’re not hiding it completely — but, even so, the group’s trepidation here is certainly telling.
“Our model, called GPT-2, was trained simply to predict the next word in 40GB of Internet text,” reads a new OpenAI blog about the effort. “Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model. As an experiment in responsible disclosure, we are instead releasing a much smaller model for researchers to experiment with, as well as a technical paper.”
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Elon Musk’s AI company created a fake news generator it’s too scared to make public originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 14:52:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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