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• “This tool is going to be the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the internet,” said Gordon Crovitz
• Personalized, real-time chatbots could share conspiracy theories in increasingly credible and persuasive ways, researchers say, smoothing out human errors like poor syntax and mistranslations and advancing beyond easily discoverable copy-paste jobs.
• ChatGPT is far more powerful and sophisticated. Supplied with questions loaded with disinformation, it can produce convincing, clean variations on the content en masse within seconds, without disclosing its sources.
• OpenAI researchers have long been nervous about chatbots falling into nefarious hands, writing in a 2019 paper of their “concern that its capabilities could lower costs of disinformation campaigns” and aid in the malicious pursuit “of monetary gain, a particular political agenda, and/or a desire to create chaos or confusion.”
• Last week, OpenAI announced a separate tool to help discern when text was written by a human as opposed to artificial intelligence, partly to identify automated misinformation campaigns. The company warned that its tool was not fully reliable — accurately identifying A.I. text only 26 percent of the time (while incorrectly labeling human-written te...

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