Researchers demonstrated the weaponization of deep neural networks that can be used to shape public opinion, enrage people on Twitter and possibly spark QAnon 2.0. The research was presented last week at Black Hat by Drew Lohn, senior fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. The fear is that in the wrong hands, the tool could be used by adversaries to flood the internet with reasonable-sounding misinformation and fake news stories. GPT-2 is best known for its ability to create news articles, stories and social-media posts that are indistinguishable as fake or real.
Source: https://threatpost.com/scaling-automated-disinformation/168484/