The study was carried out after Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), OpenAI, and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) co-hosted a workshop in 2021 to explore the potential misuse of LLMs for propaganda purposes.“We argue that for propagandists, language generation tools will likely be useful: they can drive down costs of generating content and reduce the number of humans necessary to create the same volume of content,” Dr. Josh A. Goldstein, co-author of the paper and research fellow with the CyberAI Project at CSET, told VentureBeat.For example, even the most advanced LLMs tend to make absurd statements and lose their coherence as their text gets longer than a few pages.The authors of the paper also warn about “critical unknowns.” For example, scientists have discovered that as LLMs grow larger, they show emergent abilities.For example, in the construction phase, developers might use watermarking techniques to make data created by generative models detectable."