Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to generate automated disinformation at scale. This report examines the capabilities of GPT-3--a cutting-edge AI system that writes text--to analyze its potential misuse for disinformation. A model like GPT-3 may be able to help disinformation actors substantially reduce the work necessary to write disinformation while expanding its reach and potentially also its effectiveness.

James Dunham is the Interim Director of Data Science and Research and an NLP Engineer. His doctoral research at MIT addressed measurement problems in political science using unstructured data and natural language processing.

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