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An Elon Musk-backed AI firm is keeping a text generating tool under wraps amid fears it's too dangerous

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AI research nonprofit OpenAI has created a system that can generate fake text from a single line -- and it's not open-sourcing the code for fear of misuse. OpenAI was cofounded by tech mogul Elon Musk, and its sponsors include Silicon Valley heavy-hitters such as Peter Thiel and Amazon Web Services. Last year it gained the praise of Bill Gates after it built a team of five neural networks capable of beating human players in the computer game "Dota 2." Read more: Bill Gates hails "huge milestone" for AI as bots work in a team to destroy humans at video game "Dota 2" Now the company has created a system, named GPT2, capable of imitating and generating text based on only a sentence. The Guardian's Alex Hern got to play with the system, and tried typing in a single Guardian headline about Brexit. From that headline alone, GPT2 was able to generate quotes from UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as well as a fictional spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May.