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Realistic text generator ignites ethical & fraud concerns (Elon backed company)

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New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators (video demo included)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...ws-fiction

INTRO: OpenAI, an nonprofit research company backed by Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman, and others, says its new AI model, called GPT2 is so good and the risk of malicious use so high that it is breaking from its normal practice of releasing the full research to the public in order to allow more time to discuss the ramifications of the technological breakthrough.

At its core, GPT2 is a text generator. The AI system is fed text, anything from a few words to a whole page, and asked to write the next few sentences based on its predictions of what should come next. The system is pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible, both in terms of the quality of the output, and the wide variety of potential uses.

When used to simply generate new text, GPT2 is capable of writing plausible passages that match what it is given in both style and subject. It rarely shows any of the quirks that mark out previous AI systems, such as forgetting what it is writing about midway through a paragraph, or mangling the syntax of long sentences...



OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai...dangerous/

EXCERPT: A storm is brewing over a new language model, built by non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI,  which it says is so good at generating convincing, well-written text that it’s worried about potential abuse. [...] with every good application of the system, such as bots capable of better dialog and better speech recognition, the non-profit [company] found several more [bad], like generating fake news, impersonating people, or automating abusive or spam comments on social media.

[...] For that reason, OpenAI said, it’s only releasing a smaller version of the language model [...] Admittedly, the organization said that it wasn’t sure of the decision [...] Not everyone took that well. OpenAI’s tweet announcing GPT-2 was met with anger and frustration, accusing the company of “closing off” its research, and doing the “opposite of open,” seizing on the company’s name. Others were more forgiving, calling the move a “new bar for ethics” for thinking ahead of possible abuses....



Too scary? Elon Musk's OpenAI company won't release tech that can generate fake news
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/...880790002/

INTRO: The spread of fake news is already a very real problem. Artificial intelligence could make the problem even worse. That prospect is so frightening that an Elon Musk-backed non-profit called OpenAI has decided not to publicly circulate AI-based text generation technology that enables researchers to spin an all-too-convincing--and yes, fabricated--machine-written article. “Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model,” OpenAI blogged.

Such concerns go beyond just generating misleading news articles. OpenAI worries about deception, bias and large-scale abuse. For instance, malicious people might exploit the technology to impersonate others online, automate the production of faked social media content, and automate the production of spam or phishing attacks. Musk himself has been outspoken about AI's risks to human civilization (Video: Elon Musk on danger of Artificial Intelligence)....

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