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We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

20 February 2019

Let's not panic about OpenAI's smart text generator just yet – we still don't know the extent to which fake news can influence people and election

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Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown

15 February 2019

Elon Musk-backed firm OpenAI has built a text-generating AI that it says is too dangerous to release because of potential misuse

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