Day: September 11, 2017

AI’s can generate fake reviews indistinguishable from real reviews for both humans and fake review detectors

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Fake reviews used to be crowdsourced. Now they can be auto-generated by AI, according to a new research paper shared by AmiMoJo: In this paper, we identify a new class of attacks that leverage deep learning language models (Recurrent Neural Networks or RNNs) to automate the generation of fake online reviews for products and services. Read more about AI’s can generate fake reviews indistinguishable from real reviews for both humans and fake review detectors[…]

Companies use software limitations to screw customers over more and more often, kill competition

Posted on by Robin Edgar

What began with printers and spread to phones is coming to everything: this kind of technology has proliferated to smart thermostats (no apps that let you turn your AC cooler when the power company dials it up a couple degrees), tractors (no buying your parts from third-party companies), cars (no taking your GM to an Read more about Companies use software limitations to screw customers over more and more often, kill competition[…]