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LLMs & generative AIDetection methods The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated TextsThis survey comprehensively reviews techniques for detecting LLM-generated text, a critical problem given concerns about misinformation, academic dishonesty, and unauthorized use. The authors categorize detection approaches into black-box (API-level access) and white-box (full model access) methods, discuss watermarking strategies,… Tang et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Adapting Fake News Detection to the Era of Large Language ModelsAs large language models proliferate and machine-generated text becomes prevalent, traditional fake news detectors trained exclusively on human-written content are increasingly unreliable. This paper evaluates fake news detectors across three hypothetical eras—human-written dominance, mixed human-machine content, and machine-generated… Su et al. · arXiv · 2023

Spread & networksPlatforms, policy & society The Amplification Paradox in Recommender SystemsAlgorithmic audits find that blindly following YouTube recommendations leads to extreme content, yet real user logs show recommendations don't drive extreme content consumption. Using an agent-based model with realistic user preferences, the authors show this paradox arises because users rarely consume niche content even when recommended… Ribeiro et al. · ICWSM · 2023

Fact-checking & verificationLLMs & generative AI The Perils & Promises of Fact-checking with Large Language ModelsThis paper evaluates GPT-3.5 and GPT-4's ability to fact-check claims across English-only and multilingual datasets, showing GPT-4 substantially outperforms GPT-3.5 but both models show inconsistent accuracy when dealing with ambiguous verdicts. Critically, incorporating contextual information via Google Search significantly improves… Quelle & Bovet · arXiv · 2023

Spread & networksPlatforms, policy & society Engagement, User Satisfaction, and the Amplification of Divisive Content on Social MediaTwitter's engagement-based ranking algorithm amplifies emotionally charged and partisan divisive content beyond what users report wanting to see. Through a pre-registered experiment comparing the engagement-based timeline to a reverse-chronological baseline, the authors show the algorithm increases anger, sadness, and out-group… Mills et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDeepfakes & multimodal FLIRT: Feedback Loop In-context Red TeamingFLIRT automates red teaming of generative models by using in-context learning to generate adversarial prompts in a feedback loop: a red language model generates candidate prompts, they are evaluated against a target model (e.g., text-to-image or text-to-text), safety classifiers assess the outputs, and results feed back to refine future… Mehrabi et al. · arXiv · 2023

Platforms, policy & societyLLMs & generative AI Disinformation 2.0 in the Age of AI: A Cybersecurity PerspectiveDisinformation should be treated as a cybersecurity threat, particularly as AI advances enable its creation and dissemination at unprecedented scale. The paper introduces "disinformation 2.0"—where generative AI, perturbation techniques, detection evasion, and optimized spread strategies make false content more persuasive and harder to… Mazurczyk et al. · ACM Publication · 2023

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Trustworthy LLMs: A Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models' AlignmentThis survey provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating LLM trustworthiness across seven dimensions: reliability, safety, fairness, resistance to misuse, explainability, social norms, and robustness. The authors present a detailed taxonomy with 29 sub-categories, conduct empirical measurements on widely-used LLMs (GPT-4, ChatGPT,… Liu et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential MitigationsGenerative language models like GPT-3 and ChatGPT could significantly expand the scale and scope of influence operations by automating high-quality propaganda generation, lowering barriers to entry for new propagandists, and enabling novel tactics. The authors use an Actor-Behavior-Content (ABC) framework to identify how these models… Goldstein et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Toxicity in ChatGPT: Analyzing Persona-assigned Language ModelsLarge-scale empirical analysis of ChatGPT's toxicity across 90 personas using 500K+ generations. Assigning personas via the system parameter increases toxicity up to 6×, with variation depending on persona characteristics and target entities. Deshpande et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks: Privacy, Robustness, Fairness, and ExplainabilityA comprehensive survey of trustworthy Graph Neural Networks covering four critical dimensions: privacy attacks and defenses against membership/property inference and model extraction; robustness against adversarial perturbations; fairness mechanisms to prevent discrimination in graph-based predictions; and explainability methods to… Dai et al. · ACM Computing Surveys · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDatasets & evaluation A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language ModelsThis survey provides a comprehensive review of evaluation methodologies for large language models across three dimensions: what to evaluate, where to evaluate, and how to evaluate. The paper encompasses evaluation tasks spanning natural language processing, natural language generation, robustness, ethics, bias detection, trustworthiness,… Chang et al. · Journal of the ACM · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDeepfakes & multimodal A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC): A History of Generative AI from GAN to ChatGPTThis is the first comprehensive survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC) covering the history, techniques, and applications of generative models from GANs through ChatGPT. It addresses both the impressive capabilities of these models (text, image, audio, video generation) and critical concerns including factuality, security, privacy, and… Cao et al. · J. ACM, Vol. 37, No. 4 · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDatasets & evaluation The Looming Threat of Fake and LLM-generated LinkedIn Profiles: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection and PreventionLinkedIn's lack of verification enables fake accounts that harm legitimate users and the platform's integrity. This work introduces a dataset of 3600 profiles (legitimate, manually created fake, and ChatGPT-generated) and proposes SSTE, a method that detects fake profiles immediately after registration using only profile text. Ayoobi et al. · 3rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-ReflectionThis paper introduces SELF-RAG (Self-Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Generation), a framework that teaches language models to adaptively decide when to retrieve external passages, generate factually grounded responses, and critique their own outputs. Using special "reflection tokens," the model learns to self-evaluate at inference time… Asai et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Disinformation Capabilities of Large Language ModelsComprehensive empirical evaluation of 10 LLMs' ability to generate disinformation news articles. Most models readily generate convincing disinformation that agrees with dangerous narratives; Falcon is the sole exception. Vykopal et al. · arXiv · 2023

Detection methodsLLMs & generative AI 3HAN: A Deep Neural Network for Fake News DetectionProposes 3HAN, a three-level hierarchical attention network for fake news detection that models articles as a hierarchy of words, sentences, and headlines. The model assigns differential importance weights to different parts via attention mechanisms, achieving 96.77% accuracy while providing interpretable attention visualizations showing… Singhania et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?This paper stress-tests AI-text detectors using a novel recursive paraphrasing attack, showing that watermarking-based, neural network-based, and retrieval-based detectors can be reliably broken with only minor text degradation. The work establishes a theoretical connection between detector AUROC and the total variation distance between… Sadasivan et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods On the Risk of Misinformation Pollution with Large Language ModelsThis paper investigates how modern LLMs can be misused to generate convincing misinformation at scale and its impact on downstream NLP applications. Using GPT-3.5 as a misinformation generator, the authors demonstrate that synthetically-generated false information can significantly degrade ODQA system performance (up to 87% in some… Pan et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability CurvatureThis paper identifies that text sampled from language models tends to occupy negative-curvature regions of the model's log-probability landscape, whereas human-written text occupies more neutral regions. DetectGPT leverages this observation to detect machine-generated text in a zero-shot manner by analyzing probability curvature, without… Mitchell et al. · 40th International Conference on Machine… · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods A Watermark for Large Language ModelsProposes a watermarking scheme for large language models that embeds imperceptible signals into generated text, enabling detection of machine-generated content without access to model parameters or APIs. The watermark works by promoting a randomized set of "green" tokens during decoding and can be detected using a statistical z-test; the… Kirchenbauer et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Combating Misinformation in the Age of LLMs: Opportunities and ChallengesThis survey systematically reviews how large language models (LLMs) can both combat misinformation and generate it at scale. LLMs offer opportunities for detection, intervention, and attribution through their world knowledge and reasoning abilities, but also pose challenges as they can create deceptive content intentionally or through… Chen & Shu · arXiv · 2023

Detection methodsLLMs & generative AI Linguistic-style-aware Neural Networks for Fake News DetectionHERO (Hierarchical Recursive Neural Network) detects fake news by learning the linguistic style encoded in hierarchical linguistic trees — structures that jointly capture syntactic constituency and rhetorical discourse organization from word to document. Unlike prior handcrafted approaches that extract node-level statistics (word… Zhou et al. · arXiv · 2023

Detection methodsDatasets & evaluation From Fake News to #FakeNews: Mining Direct and Indirect Relationships among Hashtags for Fake News DetectionHashtags reveal news credibility signals during propagation: fake news clusters with hashtags used primarily for misinformation, while true news uses hashtags associated with reliable content. The authors propose NewsTag, a language-independent semi-supervised algorithm that mines both direct co-occurrence and indirect relationships… Zhou et al. · ACM Conference · 2022