Combating misinformation in the age of llms: Opportunities and challenges

C Chen, K Shu - AI Magazine, 2024 - 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 …

Unveiling the veiled threat: the impact of bots on COVID-19 health communication

A Unlu, S Truong, N Sawhney… - Social Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents the results of a comprehensive study examining the influence of bots on
the dissemination of COVID-19 misinformation and negative vaccine stance on Twitter over …

Dell: Generating reactions and explanations for llm-based misinformation detection

H Wan, S Feng, Z Tan, H Wang, Y Tsvetkov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models are limited by challenges in factuality and hallucinations to be
directly employed off-the-shelf for judging the veracity of news articles, where factual …

Teller: A trustworthy framework for explainable, generalizable and controllable fake news detection

H Liu, W Wang, H Li, H Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.07776, 2024 - arxiv.org
The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a severe societal problem, raising significant
interest from industry and academia. While existing deep-learning based methods have …

Evidence-Driven Retrieval Augmented Response Generation for Online Misinformation

Z Yue, H Zeng, Y Lu, L Shang, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The proliferation of online misinformation has posed significant threats to public interest.
While numerous online users actively participate in the combat against misinformation …

On the Risk of Evidence Pollution for Malicious Social Text Detection in the Era of LLMs

H Wan, M Luo, Z Su, G Dai, X Zhao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.12600, 2024 - arxiv.org
Evidence-enhanced detectors present remarkable abilities in identifying malicious social
text with related evidence. However, the rise of large language models (LLMs) brings …

Retrieval Augmented Fact Verification by Synthesizing Contrastive Arguments

Z Yue, H Zeng, L Shang, Y Liu, Y Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rapid propagation of misinformation poses substantial risks to public interest. To combat
misinformation, large language models (LLMs) are adapted to automatically verify claim …

Auditing Counterfire: Evaluating Advanced Counterargument Generation with Evidence and Style

P Verma, K Jaidka, S Churina - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.08498, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a novel dataset for the controlled composition of counterarguments designed for
further applications in argument refining, mining, and evaluation. Our dataset constitutes …

Are they the same picture? adapting concept bottleneck models for human-AI collaboration in image retrieval

V Balloli, S Beery, E Bondi-Kelly - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.08908, 2024 - arxiv.org
Image retrieval plays a pivotal role in applications from wildlife conservation to healthcare,
for finding individual animals or relevant images to aid diagnosis. Although deep learning …

In Crowd Veritas: Leveraging Human Intelligence To Fight Misinformation

M Soprano - 2023 - air.uniud.it
The spread of online misinformation has important effects on the stability of democracy. The
information that is consumed every day influences human decision-making processes. The …