• The Guardian view on political deepfakes: voters can’t believe their own eyes. | Editorial

    The Guardian view on political deepfakes: voters can’t believe their own eyes. | Editorial
    Disinformation campaigns and forgeries are an old problem – but AI poses new threats and needs a new responseOne hundred years ago, just a few days before a British general election, the Daily Mail published a sensational letter purportedly written by Grigory Zinoviev, the head of the Communist International. The paper claimed that it revealed “a great Bolshevik plot to paralyse the British army and navy and to plunge the country into civil war”, and showed
  • How to get away with AI-generated essays | Letters

    How to get away with AI-generated essays | Letters
    Prof Paul Kleinman on putting ChatGPT to the test on his work. Plus letters from Michael Bulley and Dr Paul FlewersNo wonder Robert Topinka found himself in a quandary (The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe?, 13 February). To test ChatGPT’s abilities and weaknesses, I asked it to write a short essay on a particular topic that I specialised in. Before looking at what it produced, I wrote my own 100% original short essay on the same