Donald Trump is an Android. Or not real. According to this AI detector.
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: OpenAI, Data Science, Fake News, AI, Data Journalism

We are living in exciting times. The definition of truth is meanwhile, something relative. Fake News, Deep Fake, Alternative Facts — all these Zeitgeist terms are occupying our consciousness and are forcing us — finally! — into questioning reality. It’s time to comprehend the only one existent truth: there is no such. Every person has his/her own vision, perspective, approach. A purpose.

With AI — at latest with GPT-2 model (which is able to generate semantically coherent texts) — we have new possibilities to deceive — and to be deceived. That was the actual point of OpenAI for not publishing the full GPT-2 model. Well, now, after almost a year, they came to the following conclusion:

4. We’ve seen no strong evidence of misuse so far. While we’ve seen some discussion around GPT-2’s potential to augment high-volume/low-yield operations like spam and phishing, we haven’t seen evidence of writing code, documentation, or instances of misuse.

That’s why they released the full 1.5 billion parameter model. For everybody. To try out. (I wrote about it)

Sure, the first concerns and considerations are raised soon — for example, by Andrej Karpathy (https://cs.stanford.edu/~karpathy/), AI Director of Tesla and the Luminary at the Artificial Intelligence field:

Indeed, a tool for detecting an AI-generated text — it’s a crucial topic nowadays. And so a researcher Giulio Starace did it:

GPTrue or False

A handy Chrome plug-in, which lets you check texts about what are the odds that they are AI-written. Free to download. Just install — select 50 words text en bloc — and be surprised (or not).

The tool checks the GPT-2 log probability (GitHub for reference) and also makes use of the existing solution “OpenAI detector”.

So here comes a reality check. Am I real? Let’s analyze my own text (beginning of this article):

Phew! Luckily. I could adapt the human language so far, so it didn’t recognize my true self (feeling happy like that day after passing the Turing test!).

OK, what about Elon Musk and his way to Germany? An article from the New York Times? (Musk is btw. also an leading investor of OpenAI):

OK, it was written by qualitative journalists (it’s New York Times, still questions?).

But wait — speaking about Fake News, what about CNN? The main Fake News generator (according to Mr. Trump).

Well, let’s analyze “The Macedonia Machine” (“The Fake News Machine”), a special issue by “Fake News CNN”, according to which:

Over 100 websites were tracked here during the final weeks of the 2016 U.S. election campaign, producing fake news that mostly favored Republican candidate for President Donald Trump.

So, at least it isn’t written by AI. It’s real.

But wait — speaking of Trump, why not analyze his speeches?

Here is his Minneapolis speech — first Donald Trump campaign rally since his impeachment inquiry began:

…there is a 0.04% chance that the selected text is real…

Wait… Well, it’s probably system malfunction. Let’s look on his announcement about killing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

Chances are better, but still with 86.09% for not real.

Ehm… well, what about his famous cabinet meeting, when he called Emoluments Clause of the Constitution “phony” (as a refresher: Emoluments Clause “states that a president cannot personally benefit financially from being president”).

No way!

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the evidence that Mr. President of the United States of America Donald Trump is, in fact, an Android. Or not real.