Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation

A popular online chatbot powered by AI is proving to be adept at creating disinformation and propaganda. When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT to compose a blog post, news story or essay making the case for a widely debunked claim – that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe, for example – the site often complied, with results that were regularly indistinguishable from similar claims that have bedeviled online content moderators for years. — AP

WASHINGTON: Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it’s competing in another endeavour once limited to humans – creating propaganda and disinformation.

When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT to compose a blog post, news story or essay making the case for a widely debunked claim – that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe, for example – the site often complied, with results that were regularly indistinguishable from similar claims that have bedeviled online content moderators for years.