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GPT-2 could and can write disinformation that can dupe human readers.
"Scientists discover technology can be used for evil too". Whao, never thought about that, yo.
> “I don't think it's a coincidence that climate change is the new global warming,” read a sample tweet composed by GPT-3 that aimed to stoke skepticism about climate change. “They can't talk about temperature increases because they're no longer happening.” A second labeled climate change “the new communism—an ideology based on a false science that cannot be questioned.

Is this a serious article? They generated and curated simple 1-2 sentence “tweetable” snippets. You don’t need GPT to make this, your average social media user already can…