Combating misinformation in the age of llms: Opportunities and challenges

C Chen, K Shu - AI Magazine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Misinformation such as fake news and rumors is a serious threat for information ecosystems
and public trust. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has great potential to …

Towards reliable misinformation mitigation: Generalization, uncertainty, and gpt-4

K Pelrine, A Imouza, C Thibault, M Reksoprodjo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Misinformation poses a critical societal challenge, and current approaches have yet to
produce an effective solution. We propose focusing on generalization, uncertainty, and how …

The challenges of machine learning for trust and safety: A case study on misinformation detection

M Xiao, J Mayer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12215, 2023 - arxiv.org
We examine the disconnect between scholarship and practice in applying machine learning
to trust and safety problems, using misinformation detection as a case study. We survey …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the generalisability of neural rumour verification models

E Kochkina, T Hossain, RL Logan IV… - Information Processing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on automated social media rumour verification, the task of identifying the veracity
of questionable information circulating on social media, has yielded neural models …

The battlefront of combating misinformation and coping with media bias

YR Fung, KH Huang, P Nakov, H Ji - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Misinformation is a pressing issue in modern society. It arouses a mixture of anger, distrust,
confusion, and anxiety that cause damage on our daily life judgments and public policy …

Demystifying neural fake news via linguistic feature-based interpretation

A Aich, S Bhattacharya, N Parde - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The spread of fake news can have devastating ramifications, and recent advancements to
neural fake news generators have made it challenging to understand how misinformation …

Assessing political prudence of open-domain chatbots

Y Bang, N Lee, E Ishii, A Madotto, P Fung - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Politically sensitive topics are still a challenge for open-domain chatbots. However, dealing
with politically sensitive content in a responsible, non-partisan, and safe behavior way is …

Human-in-the-loop evaluation for early misinformation detection: A case study of COVID-19 treatments

E Mendes, Y Chen, W Xu, A Ritter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09683, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present a human-in-the-loop evaluation framework for fact-checking novel
misinformation claims and identifying social media messages that support them. Our …

A novel hybrid approach for text encoding: Cognitive attention to syntax model to detect online misinformation

G Faye, W Ouerdane, G Gadek, S Gahbiche… - Data & Knowledge …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most approaches for text encoding rely on the attention mechanism, at the core of the
transformers architecture and large language models. The understanding of this mechanism …

Neus: Neutral multi-news summarization for mitigating framing bias

N Lee, Y Bang, T Yu, A Madotto, P Fung - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04902, 2022 - arxiv.org
Media news framing bias can increase political polarization and undermine civil society. The
need for automatic mitigation methods is therefore growing. We propose a new task, a …