ReadFakes

Aside from video and audio content, there is only one additional medium that provides information and daily – if not hourly – data to the world at large: text. We read the news, we read blogs, and we all gather our preferred information from sources that produce and generate textual information. This information can come in a variety of formats, but it is the largest amount of information that is available to the masses. If we accept that truth, then we also must accept that it is possible for a sufficiently powerful and well-tuned ML system to generate textual information that could be used for malicious purposes and disinformation campaigns.

Machines are now just as adept at generating textual information and data as humans are. In some cases, machines have been proven to produce text that is as poetic and narrative as that of Shakespeare. One researcher, Andrej Karpathy, used a relatively small sampling of past literature attributed...