Faking the News with Natural Language Processing and GPT-2

GPT-2 generates text that is far more realistic than any text generation system before it. OpenAI was so shocked by the quality of the output that they decided that the full GPT-2 model was too dangerous to release because it could be used to create endless amounts of fake news that could fool the public or clog up search engines like Google. How easy it is for an average person to generate fake news that could trick a real person and how good are the results? Let's explore how a system like this could work and how much of a threat it is. Let's try to build a newspaper populated with fake, computer generated news: To populate News You Can't Use, we'll create a Python script that can'clone' a news site like the New York Times and generate artificial news stories on the same topics.