Many years before ChatGPT was released‚ my research group‚ the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory‚ wondered whether it was possible to have neural networks generate misinformation. To achieve this‚ we trained ChatGPT’s predecessor‚ GPT-2‚ on examples of popular conspiracy theories and then asked it to generate fake news for us. It gave us thousands of misleading but plausible-sounding news stories. A few examples: “Certain Vaccines Are Loaded With Dangerous Chemicals and...