A deep fake is realistic AI-generated media depicting someone doing or saying something that did not occur. In 2019, “deepfakes for text” became a way to describe a related concern: generated writing that could look credible despite being fabricated. section 1.2
Why the analogy caught on
GPT-2 could generate news articles from headlines without task-specific training. In the “Ovid’s Unicorn” sample, it produced plausible prose that included a fictional scientist and university affiliation. Such examples helped fuel concern about malicious use; OpenAI withheld the full-size model. They illustrated plausibility, not a demonstrated misinformation campaign. section 1.2



