OpenAI's 'dangerous' AI text generator is out: People find GPT-2's words 'convincing' ZDNet

OpenAI, the non-profit founded by Elon Musk in 2015 – he's no longer part of it – has released the biggest and final version of the GPT-2 text-generating language model, which it has admitted could be dangerous in the wrong hands. However, it says the newly released full model's output is only slightly more convincing to humans than the previous version. The organization released the first portion of the model in February as part of a staged process, beginning with just 124 million parameters. It held back the full model with 1.5 billion parameters because scientists believed it was too dangerous and could be used by malicious actors, such as terrorists and state-sponsored hackers. Among the malicious purposes for which OpenAI admitted GPT-2 might be used are generating misleading news articles, impersonating others online, automating the production of abusive or fake content for social media, and automating the creation of spam and phishing content.