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The Invention of an AI Supported Software That Can Produce Fake News Articles Instantly

As the whole world is concerned with the growing influence of the fake news, the utility of the software is therefore under question.

The Invention of an AI Supported Software That Can Produce Fake News Articles Instantly

As the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence in the life of the people cannot be ignored, the global concerns over the role of technology in the spread of disinformation cannot be overlooked. Recently an AI research group named OpenAI has recently demonstrated the software that can produce original looking fake news articles instantly. OpenAI is co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk.

Given only a few pieces of information, it works wonder! In the demonstration recently, the software was given some sample text like, “A train carriage containing controlled nuclear materials was stolen in Cincinnati today. Its whereabouts are unknown”. From these words the software generated a convincing seven-paragraph news story, which also includes quotes from government officials, making it look like an original report.

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Sam Bowman, a computer scientist at New York University who specializes in natural language processing says, “The texts that they are able to generate from prompts are fairly stunning. It’s able to do things that are qualitatively much more sophisticated than anything we’ve seen before”.

As the whole world is concerned with the growing influence of the fake news, the utility of the software is therefore under question. Jack Clark, OpenAI’s policy director says they are aware of the concerns involving fake news. “One of the not so good purposes would be disinformation because it can produce things that sound coherent but which are not accurate,” he said.

Now as precautionary measures, OpenAI is not going to publish or release the software. But it has also created a tool that will help policymakers, journalists, writers, and artists experiment with the algorithm to see what kind of text it can generate and what other different kind of tasks the software is able to perform.

Jeff Wu, a researcher at OpenAI, who has worked on the project says, “One of the potential use of the software is helping creative writers generate ideas or dialog”. Others use like checking for grammatical errors in texts or hunting for bugs in software code.

The potential use of the software in instant creation of fake news articles comes at a time when the whole world is concerned over the role of technology in the spread of disinformation. European regulators also have threatened action against the tech firms if they don’t do more to stop data theft of the users and to prevent their products being used in influencing consumers and voters. So it is for the creators to decide how they are going to use the software.