This AI-powered text generator is the scariest thing I've ever seen -- and you can try it

OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, I'm legitimately terrified for the future of humanity if we don't figure out a way to detect AI-generated content – and soon. GPT-2 isn't a killer robot and my fears aren't that AI is going to rise up against us. I'm terrified of GPT-2 because it represents the kind of technology that evil humans are going to use to manipulate the population -- and in my opinion that makes it more dangerous than any gun. Here's how it works: you give it a prompt and it near-instantly spits out a bunch of words. What's scary about it is that it works.