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GPT-2: AI That Writes Fake News? Yikes!

14 October 2026 · The Neural Feed
GPT-2: AI That Writes Fake News? Yikes! – Neural Toons comic

“In tech, sometimes it's better to just not hit 'send'.”

The story behind the toon

What happened: TYPE: Foundation Model | TECH: GPT-2 by OpenAI | MECHANISM: It was trained on vast text data to generate human-like text. | IMPACT: Avoided potential misuse of AI-generated fake news.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “"New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators" (2019 Guardian headline)”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Sam: Wait, we created AI that writes fake news?

Panel 1 – ChatGPT: Uh, yes! But I can assure you...

Panel 2 – Sam: It's like giving a toddler a firecracker.

Panel 2 – ChatGPT: Exactly! Terrifying but... kind of impressive?

Panel 3 – Sam: We trained it on 40 GB of text.

Panel 3 – ChatGPT: And it learned to mimic human writing!

Panel 4 – Sam: We decided not to release it for safety.

Panel 4 – ChatGPT: Good call! 35,000 Moby Dicks could confuse anyone!

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