{"id":325493,"date":"2019-07-06T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/ai-poised-to-ruin-internet-using-massive-tsunami-of-fake-news.php"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:23:37","slug":"ai-poised-to-ruin-internet-using-massive-tsunami-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/ai-poised-to-ruin-internet-using-massive-tsunami-of-fake-news.php","title":{"rendered":"AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using \u201cMassive Tsunami\u201d of Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/07\/ai-poised-to-ruin-the-internet-with-massive-tsunami-of-fake-news-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Spam City<\/h2><p>New tools can recreate a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/these-people-never-existed-they-were-made-by-an-ai\">human&rsquo;s face<\/a> and&nbsp;or <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/writing-with-ai-boring-gimmick\">writer&rsquo;s voice<\/a> to frightening levels of accuracy.<\/p><p>Among the most concerning of these is the deceivingly-adorably-named GROVER a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-generates-fake-news\">fake news-writing bot<\/a> that people have used the tool to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-generates-horrible-marketing-sites\">make blogs<\/a> and even entire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/subreddit-fake-news-ai\">subreddits<\/a> illustrate the problems AI-written news can pose to the world. Do not let the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1905.12616.pdf\">adorable blue namesake puppet<\/a> on the first page of the white paper fool you &mdash; this thing is freaky.<\/p><p>And it could just be the beginning. Tools like GROVER could create &ldquo;a massive tsunami of computer-generated content across every niche imaginable,&rdquo; Kristin Tynski of the marketing agency Fractl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/2\/19063562\/ai-text-generation-spam-marketing-seo-fractl-grover-google\">told <em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><h2>Cat, Meet Mouse<\/h2><p>When Futurism first spotted &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com\/\">This Marketing Blog Doesn&rsquo;t Exist<\/a>,&rdquo; a Fractl-owned website that used GROVER to churn out fake articles about things like search engine optimization and Instagram marketing, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-generates-horrible-marketing-sites\">we urged readers<\/a> to pay closer attention to the information they read online.<\/p><p>While GROVER isn&rsquo;t perfect by any means, it&rsquo;s definitely good enough to convince the casual reader who isn&rsquo;t scrutinizing every word they read.<\/p><h2>BattleBots<\/h2><p>Google and other AI developers have their work cut out for them when faced with AI-written spam that&rsquo;s likely to flood the internet as people chase down that sweet, sweet advertising revenue cash.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Because [AI systems] enable content creation at essentially unlimited scale, and content that humans and search engines alike will have difficulty discerning&hellip; we feel it is an incredibly important topic with far too little discussion currently,&rdquo; Tynski told&nbsp;<em>The Verge<\/em>.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/2\/19063562\/ai-text-generation-spam-marketing-seo-fractl-grover-google\">Endless AI-generated spam risks clogging up Google&rsquo;s search results<\/a> [<em>The Verge<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on GROVER: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-generates-horrible-marketing-sites\">New AI Generates Infinite Horrible Marketing Sites<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-ruin-internet-tsunami-fake-news\/\">AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using &ldquo;Massive Tsunami&rdquo; of Fake News<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>See the original post here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-ruin-internet-tsunami-fake-news\/\" title=\"AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using &ldquo;Massive Tsunami&rdquo; of Fake News\">AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using &ldquo;Massive Tsunami&rdquo; of Fake News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Spam City New tools can recreate a human\u2019s face and\u00a0or writer\u2019s voice to frightening levels of accuracy. Among the most concerning of these is the deceivingly-adorably-named GROVER a fake news-writing bot that people have used the tool to make blogs and even entire\u00a0 subreddits illustrate the problems AI-written news can pose to the world. Do not let the adorable blue namesake puppet on the first page of the white paper fool you \u2014 this thing is freaky.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/ai-poised-to-ruin-internet-using-massive-tsunami-of-fake-news.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}