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ChatGPT and new AI tools also need fact-checking

MISINFORMATION

New artificial intelligence tools promise to unleash a wave of innovation. Unchecked, the same tools threaten to swamp us with misinformation and falsehoods.

ChatGPT, the most popular of the Generative AI tools, automates creation of human-level writing. It does so by predicting the most likely thing that a human being would have written next in an any given situation.

The results, as numerous breathless commentators will attest, are impressive, from credible-sounding academic texts to Shakespearean sonnets generated from

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