AI Generated 'Fake News' is Here and There is a Plan to Stop it with AI - AI Technologies

In 2018, FireEye – a company based in California – informed Facebook and Google about a large group of fake Iranian social media accounts that was running movements to control the U.S people. As a result, Facebook and Google identified them, along with fake YouTube channels and blogs, using back-end data and then removed them. "Right now, you know something's automated just by the sheer volume of content pushing out," Lee Foster, information operations manager at FireEye, says. "It's not possible for a human to do this, so it's clearly not organically created. Often you'll see automated retweeting of some list of accounts that just to boost out a message. But the situation is about to take a new turn, he claims, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that covers its automated heritage is available now. "Imagine having a capability out there that can automate the organic creation of original content effectively enough that it looks real, but you don't even have to have it operate or touch it," Foster says. "In the very near term, the evolution of AI and machine learning, combined with the increasing availability of big data, will begin to transform human communication and interaction in the digital space.