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The inevitable appearance of spurious correlations in training datasets hurts the generalization of NLP models on unseen data. Previous work has found that datasets with paired inputs are prone to correlations between a specific part of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yanai Elazar , Bhargavi Paranjape , Hao Peng , Sarah Wiegreffe , Khyathi Raghavi , Vivek Srikumar , Sameer Singh , Noah A. Smith

Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very time-consuming, human fact-checkers can benefit from tools that can support them and make them more efficient. Here,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shaden Shaar , Nikola Georgiev , Firoj Alam , Giovanni Da San Martino , Aisha Mohamed , Preslav Nakov

The recent success in language generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, Bard, Llama etc., can potentially lead to concerns about their possible misuse in inducing mass agitation and communal hatred via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shrey Satapara , Parth Mehta , Debasis Ganguly , Sandip Modha

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinated content, posing significant challenges for applications where factuality is crucial. While existing hallucination detection methods typically operate at the sentence level or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Albert Sawczyn , Jakub Binkowski , Denis Janiak , Bogdan Gabrys , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Recent research on large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated their ability to understand and employ deceptive behavior, even without explicit prompting. However, such behavior has only been observed in rare, specialized cases and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Laurène Vaugrante , Francesca Carlon , Maluna Menke , Thilo Hagendorff

Business communication digitisation has reorganised the process of persuasive discourse, which allows not only greater transparency but also advanced deception. This inquiry synthesises classical rhetoric and communication psychology with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sayem Hossen , Monalisa Moon Joti , Md. Golam Rashed

Evidence-based fact checking aims to verify the truthfulness of a claim against evidence extracted from textual sources. Learning a representation that effectively captures relations between a claim and evidence can be challenging. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Canasai Kruengkrai , Junichi Yamagishi , Xin Wang

The rise in online misinformation in recent years threatens democracies by distorting authentic public discourse and causing confusion, fear, and even, in extreme cases, violence. There is a need to understand the spread of false content…

Mis- and disinformation are a substantial global threat to our security and safety. To cope with the scale of online misinformation, researchers have been working on automating fact-checking by retrieving and verifying against relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

There is an increase in the proliferation of online hate commensurate with the rise in the usage of social media. In response, there is also a significant advancement in the creation of automated tools aimed at identifying harmful text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay , Dennis Assenmacher , Jose M. Alonso Moral , Claudia Wagner

With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

Artificial Intelligence-generated content has become increasingly popular, yet its malicious use, particularly the deepfakes, poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse. While deepfake detection methods achieve high predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tomasz Szandala , Fatima Ezzeddine , Natalia Rusin , Silvia Giordano , Omran Ayoub

As artificial neural networks, and specifically large language models, have improved rapidly in capabilities and quality, they have increasingly been deployed in real-world applications, from customer service to Google search, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eugenia Iofinova , Dan Alistarh

Due to the evolution of the Web and social network platforms it becomes very easy to disseminate the information. Peoples are creating and sharing more information than ever before, which may be misleading, misinformation or fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dharmaraj R. Patil

The rise of Deepfake technology to generate hyper-realistic manipulated images and videos poses a significant challenge to the public and relevant authorities. This study presents a robust Deepfake detection based on a modified Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Saksham Kumar , Rhythm Narang

Machine unlearning has emerged as an important component in developing safe and trustworthy models. Prior work on fact unlearning in LLMs has mostly focused on removing a specified target fact robustly, but often overlooks its deductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ruihan Wu , Chhavi Yadav , Russ Salakhutdinov , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Over the past decade, fake news and misinformation have turned into a major problem that has impacted different aspects of our lives, including politics and public health. Inspired by natural human behavior, we present an approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zahra Ghadiri , Milad Ranjbar , Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad , Sadegh Raeisi

We propose a benchmark to measure whether a language model is truthful in generating answers to questions. The benchmark comprises 817 questions that span 38 categories, including health, law, finance and politics. We crafted questions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Stephanie Lin , Jacob Hilton , Owain Evans

Mechanistic approaches to deception in large language models (LLMs) often rely on "lie detectors", that is, truth probes trained to identify internal representations of model outputs as false. The lie detector approach to LLM deception…

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