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Detecting deception in an increasingly digital world is both a critical and challenging task. In this study, we present a comprehensive evaluation of the automated deception detection capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Md Messal Monem Miah , Adrita Anika , Xi Shi , Ruihong Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, but their increasing autonomy in real-world applications raises concerns about their trustworthiness. While hallucinations-unintentional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haoran Huan , Mihir Prabhudesai , Mengning Wu , Shantanu Jaiswal , Deepak Pathak

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

Deception detection is a task with many applications both in direct physical and in computer-mediated communication. Our focus is on automatic deception detection in text across cultures. We view culture through the prism of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Katerina Papantoniou , Panagiotis Papadakos , Theodore Patkos , Giorgos Flouris , Ion Androutsopoulos , Dimitris Plexousakis

Despite the remarkable advances of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse cognitive tasks, the rapid enhancement of these capabilities also introduces emergent deceptive behaviors that may induce severe risks in high-stakes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yao Huang , Yitong Sun , Yichi Zhang , Ruochen Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Xingxing Wei

Deception detection is an interdisciplinary field attracting researchers from psychology, criminology, computer science, and economics. We propose a multimodal approach combining deep learning and discriminative models for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Laslo Dinges , Marc-André Fiedler , Ayoub Al-Hamadi , Thorsten Hempel , Ahmed Abdelrahman , Joachim Weimann , Dmitri Bershadskyy

Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining artificial intelligence (AI) systems with human communication and everyday life. Thus, aligning them with human values is of great importance. However, given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Thilo Hagendorff

We propose a data-driven method for automatic deception detection in real-life trial data using visual and verbal cues. Using OpenFace with facial action unit recognition, we analyze the movement of facial features of the witness when posed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Mimansa Jaiswal , Sairam Tabibu , Rajiv Bajpai

In recent years, deep learning has greatly streamlined the process of manipulating photographic face images. Aware of the potential dangers, researchers have developed various tools to spot these counterfeits. Yet, none asks the fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mian Zou , Baosheng Yu , Yibing Zhan , Siwei Lyu , Kede Ma

Language Models (LMs) may acquire harmful knowledge, and yet feign ignorance of these topics when under audit. Inspired by the recent discovery of deception-related behaviour patterns in LMs, we aim to train classifiers that detect when a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dhananjay Ashok , Ruth-Ann Armstrong , Jonathan May

Background: Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgments and automated machine learning judgments. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bennett Kleinberg , Riccardo Loconte , Bruno Verschuere

In settings from fact-checking to question answering, we frequently want to know whether a collection of evidence (premises) entails a hypothesis. Existing methods primarily focus on the end-to-end discriminative version of this task, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kaj Bostrom , Zayne Sprague , Swarat Chaudhuri , Greg Durrett

The lack of large realistic datasets presents a bottleneck in online deception detection studies. In this paper, we apply a data collection method based on social network analysis to quickly identify high-quality deceptive and truthful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Wenlin Yao , Zeyu Dai , Ruihong Huang , James Caverlee

Deepfake detection models often generate natural-language explanations, yet their reasoning is frequently ungrounded in visual evidence, limiting reliability. Existing evaluations measure classification accuracy but overlook reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kartik Kuckreja , Parul Gupta , Muhammad Haris Khan , Abhinav Dhall

The detection of fake news often requires sophisticated reasoning skills, such as logically combining information by considering word-level subtle clues. In this paper, we move towards fine-grained reasoning for fake news detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yiqiao Jin , Xiting Wang , Ruichao Yang , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Hao Liao , Xing Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) are effective at deceiving, when prompted to do so. But under what conditions do they deceive spontaneously? Models that demonstrate better performance on reasoning tasks are also better at prompted deception.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Samuel M. Taylor , Benjamin K. Bergen

Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with millions of people worldwide in applications such as customer support, education and healthcare. However, their ability to produce deceptive outputs, whether intentionally or inadvertently, poses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Marwa Abdulhai , Ryan Cheng , Aryansh Shrivastava , Natasha Jaques , Yarin Gal , Sergey Levine

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in situations where human values are at stake, such as decision-making tasks that involve reasoning when performed by humans. We investigate the so-called reasoning capabilities of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Nathaniël de Leeuw , Marceau Nahon , Mathis Reymond , Raja Chatila , Mehdi Khamassi

Deception detection is an important task that has been a hot research topic due to its potential applications. It can be applied in many areas, from national security (e.g., airport security, jurisprudence, and law enforcement) to real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jun-Teng Yang , Guei-Ming Liu , Scott C. -H Huang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have incorporated planning and reasoning capabilities, enabling models to outline steps before execution and provide transparent reasoning paths. This enhancement has reduced errors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Sudarshan Kamath Barkur , Sigurd Schacht , Johannes Scholl