AI tool that can spot text written by a machine could spell the end of fake news

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a program that weeds-out fake news. The Giant Language Model Test Room is devised by IT experts at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a bid to counter inauthentic journalism. Based around predictive language models, which allow computers and bots to write copy, the system aims to machine algorithms. According to results of their own research, GLTR helped to improve the detection-rate of forged text from 54 percent to 72 percent - meaning the days of misinformation could potentially be numbered. Due to their modeling power,automated language models have the potential to generate textual output that is indistinguishable from the real thing - AKA it's often fake news The Giant Language Model Test Room enables forensic analysis of how likely an automatic system generated a text.