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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the try-harder dept.

Robot authors trying to compete with Orwell

A non-profit lab called Open AI has announced that they've trained a machine to read, write, translate, and summarize text unsupervised.

According to Open AI's blog post, the objective is for the machine to write human quality text, both fiction and non-fiction, and bring society:

  • AI writing assistants
  • More capable dialogue agents
  • Unsupervised translation between languages
  • Better speech recognition systems

Some negative things this reading/writing robot might be able to do:

  • Generate misleading news articles
  • Impersonate others online
  • Automate the production of abusive or faked content to post on social media
  • Automate the production of spam/phishing content

The creators announced it's too soon to release the program and expressed that the major concern is misleading or false news stories that may be created by the robots. Open AI did, however, release a smaller version for people to experiment with.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:20PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday April 24 2019, @03:20PM (#834366) Journal

    Learn to write, they said.
    You will be able to report on many interesting thing, they said.

    Instead I am here, replacing the 50 cents army.

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