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OpenAI's GPT-2 algorithm is good in knitting fake news

TechXplore - Sat 16 Feb 19

Fake. Dangerous. Scary. Too good. When headlines swim with verdicts like those then you suspect, correctly, that you're in the land of artificial intelligence, where someone has come up with ...

Researchers keeps wraps on automatic text generator to prevent misuse

TechXplore - Sat 16 Feb 19

Researchers this week announced they had developed an automatic text generator using artificial intelligence which is very good—so good, it is keeping details private for now.

An AI tool auto-generates fake news, bogus tweets, and plenty of gibberish

MIT Technology Review - Thu 14 Feb 19

Fed with billions of words, this algorithm dreams up convincing articles and shows how AI could power disinformation campaigns.

AI researchers debate the ethics of sharing potentially harmful programs

The Verge - Thu 21 Feb 19

A recent decision by research lab OpenAI to limit the release of a new algorithm has caused controversy in the AI community. The nonprofit said it decided not to share the full ...

AI is so good at inventing stories that its creators had to shut it down to avoid ‘fake news’

ZME Science - Wed 20 Feb 19

OpenAI thinks that its AI is too dangerous to risk having it fall into the wrong hands.

AI fake face website launched

BBC Technology - Tue 19 Feb 19

Users can generate false faces, using artificial intelligence.

OpenAI has a text-generation tool that can write convincing fake news

Techspot - Fri 15 Feb 19

Artificial intelligence is growing at a rapid rate. Breakthroughs and creative uses seem to make headlines weekly. Applications have been developed to do everything from legal analysis of contracts ...

Musk-backed AI group: Our text generator is so good it's scary - CNET

CNET - Thu 14 Feb 19

OpenAI offers only a peek behind the curtain, saying it's worried about bad actors creating "deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale."

AI can write disturbingly believable fake news

Engadget - Thu 14 Feb 19

AI is getting better and better at writing convincing material, and that's leading its creators to wonder whether they should release the technology in the first place. Elon Musk's ...

Computers could write full - and wrong - news stories - researchers

Reuters Technology - Thu 14 Feb 19

A research group backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights on Thursday released a paper showing that technology that can generate realistic news stories from little more than a headline suggestion ...

OpenAI’s new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders

The Verge - Thu 14 Feb 19

A step forward in AI text-generation that also spells trouble Continue reading…

New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators

The Guardian - Thu 14 Feb 19

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuseThe creators of a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and works of fiction ...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 16)

SingularityHub - Sat 16 Feb 19

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Is Reinventing the Way We Invent David Rotman | MIT Technology Review “i‘This is where the action is,’ Alán Aspuru-Guzik says. ‘AIs that ...

AI news-writing system deemed too dangerous to release

Techradar - Fri 15 Feb 19

OpenAI aims to pave the way for artificial general intelligence, but says its new system has too much potential for misuse.