A new report lays out the ways that cutting-edge text-generating AI models could be used to aid disinformation campaigns.<\/p>\n
Why it matters: In the wrong hands text-generating systems could be used to scale up state-sponsored disinformation efforts and humans would struggle to know when they're being lied to.<\/p>\n
How it works: Text-generating models like OpenAI's leading GPT-3 are trained on vast volumes of internet data, and learn to write eerily life-like text off human prompts.<\/p>\n
What they found: While \"no currently existing autonomous system could replace the entirety of the IRA,\" algorithmically based tech paired with experienced human operators produces results that are nothing less than frightening.<\/p>\n
What to watch: While OpenAI has tightly restricted access to GPT-3, Buchanan notes that it's \"likely that open source versions of GPT-3 will eventually emerge, greatly complicating any efforts to lock the technology down.\"<\/p>\n
The bottom line: Like much of social media more broadly, the report's authors write that systems like GPT-3 seem \"more adept as fabulists than as staid truth-tellers.\" <\/p>\n
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