Technology creating fake news, withheld

An Artificial Intelligence-based writer that can automatically create meaningful text based on previously fed data is being withheld, since the information contained in the text was found to be factually or contextually incorrect. The creators felt the technology could be used to manufacture ‘fake news’. Scientists of the research institute in San Francisco, OpenAI, state the system could generate coherent articles on any subject based on a brief prompt. “The AI generates the story word-by-word. The resulting text is often coherent, but rarely truthful — all quotes and attributions are fabricated,” says a BBC report.