A liberal billionaire who allegedly backed a misinformation campaign against Roy Moore has helped fund the development of software capable of creating “deepfake” news articles.Reid Hoffman, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and Democratic donor, has greatly increased his financial contributions to the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
OpenAI has published software called GT2, which is capable of generating news stories from two sentences that look like the real thing, dubbed “deepfake” articles.
In 2017, groups financed by Hoffman, New Knowledge and American Engagement Technologies, allegedly used social media to undermine support for Republican Roy Moore’s U.S. Senate campaign in Alabama. Moore, who had held a sizable lead in polling, lost narrowly to Democrat Doug Jones, who has called for an investigation of the scheme.
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