Microsoft's AI Team Release a Bot That Can Generate Fake Comments
Bizarrely, a team at Microsoft has released work on an AI bot, called DeepCom, that can be used to generate fake comments about news articles.
The team says these fake comments can create engagement for new websites and news outlets, essentially encouraging the use of fake accounts to generate real engagement with fake discussion.
The researchers argue that readers enjoy posting comments under news articles and sharing their opinions. For publishers, this increases engagement, so why not give it all an AI-powered boost?
“Such systems can enable commenting service for a news website from cold start, enhance the reading experience for less commented news articles, and enrich skill lists of other artificial intelligence applications, such as chatbots,” the paper says.
View: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1178663474475483137
As The Register reports, DeepCom simultaneously employs two neural networks: a reading network and a generating network.
All of the words in a news article are encoded as vectors for the AI to analyze. The reading network picks up what it calculates are the most important aspects of the article (a person, event, or topic), before the generating network creates a comment based on that.
The researchers trained DeepCom on a Chinese dataset made up of millions of human comments posted on news articles online, as well as an English language dataset from articles on Yahoo! News.
This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles
Microsoft's AI Team Release a Bot That Can Generate Fake Comments
Bizarrely, a team at Microsoft has released work on an AI bot, called DeepCom, that can be used to generate fake comments about news articles.
The team says these fake comments can create engagement for new websites and news outlets, essentially encouraging the use of fake accounts to generate real engagement with fake discussion.
The researchers argue that readers enjoy posting comments under news articles and sharing their opinions. For publishers, this increases engagement, so why not give it all an AI-powered boost?
“Such systems can enable commenting service for a news website from cold start, enhance the reading experience for less commented news articles, and enrich skill lists of other artificial intelligence applications, such as chatbots,” the paper says.
View: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1178663474475483137
As The Register reports, DeepCom simultaneously employs two neural networks: a reading network and a generating network.
All of the words in a news article are encoded as vectors for the AI to analyze. The reading network picks up what it calculates are the most important aspects of the article (a person, event, or topic), before the generating network creates a comment based on that.
The researchers trained DeepCom on a Chinese dataset made up of millions of human comments posted on news articles online, as well as an English language dataset from articles on Yahoo! News.
This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles
Microsoft's AI Team Release a Bot That Can Generate Fake Comments