2020 EMNLP EMNLP 2020

How Effectively Can Machines Defend Against Machine-Generated Fake News? An Empirical Study

Abstract

AbstractWe empirically study the effectiveness of machine-generated fake news detectors by understanding the modelโ€™s sensitivity to different synthetic perturbations during test time. The current machine-generated fake news detectors rely on provenance to determine the veracity of news. Our experiments find that the success of these detectors can be limited since they are rarely sensitive to semantic perturbations and are very sensitive to syntactic perturbations. Also, we would like to open-source our code and believe it could be a useful diagnostic tool for evaluating models aimed at fighting machine-generated fake news.

โ“ The Questioner
๐ŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge โ€” Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
๐Ÿงญ Keyword Pioneer โ€” synthetic perturbation
๐Ÿฃ Hot Topic Early Bird โ€” misinformation detection
๐Ÿ Cross-Pollinator โ€” Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio