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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
 

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Here’s an example of one of DeepCom’s fake comments. The response is short and talks about basketball.



 

RaginCajun

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Anyway we could get some of these geniuses to start working on something actually useful like, I don't know, curing diseases or anything other then ai bots?
 

Hauler

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Anyway we could get some of these geniuses to start working on something actually useful like, I don't know, curing diseases or anything other then ai bots?
There's more money in treating diseases than there is in finding a cure for them. Technology will make advancements based on what they deem useful to their own pockets. I'm not sure how an AI Bot that comments on articles is beneficial, but you can be sure that money is at the end of it.
 
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That explains Rambo and his passive-aggressive nonsense