Language models pose a threat to disinformation.

Where deepfakes are putting out fake videos of people, language models can be used by bad

parties to create junk news or increase catfishing scams through fake text messages, emails,

and social media status updates.

Articles generated by a machine continue to be released that look like other people actually

wrote them.

What this means effectively is that in the same way that visual AI creates the possibility

for deep fake videos and photos and forces us to be even more on our guard about that sort of visual

disinformation, this new language model technology should make us more on our

guard about what we read. Because the more that this AI gets trained, the more likely it is that

some of the things around us are designed specifically to manipulate us and not just by good

propagandists, but by actual machine propagandists.

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What's going on, guys?

It is Monday, July 20th, and if your feeds were anything like mine over the weekend,

you saw a huge number of tweets

about GPT3, a new AI language prediction model that is just blowing people's minds.

Before that, however, two quick things.

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