As if the internet isn't already a complicated cesspool full of trolls, AI engineers have gone one step further to build a machine learning model that can generate fake comments for news articles. The eyebrow-raising creation, known as DeepCom, was developed by a group of engineers at Beihang University and Microsoft, China. "Automatic news comment generation is beneficial for real applications but has not attracted enough attention from the research community," they said in a paper released on arXiv. Allowing readers to post comments under articles keeps them engaged, they argued. Open dialogue allows people to discuss their opinions and share new information.