Grover AI Detects Machine-Generated 'Neural' Fake News -- By Also Generating It - The New Stack

The term "fake news" barely made a blip on most people's radars a few years ago, yet many observers are saying that this pernicious form of disinformation -- now weaponized to spread virally thanks to social media -- could potentially destabilize democracies around the world. But so-called "fake news" is nothing new: after all, the practice of spreading of false information to influence public opinion has been a relatively common one since at least ancient times. However, what's alarming today is that fake news will likely no longer be only generated by humans. While there are automated methods to detect fake news created by humans, with recent AI advancements, especially in the field of natural language generation (NLG), it will now be possible for machines to produce convincing disinformation, written in the language and tone of established news sources -- on a much larger scale and to potentially much more devastating effect -- than ever before. So how to catch this kind of machine-generated propaganda?