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Lying Blindly: Bypassing ChatGPT's Safeguards to Generate Hard-to-Detect Disinformation Claims
Freddy Heppell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Kalina Bontcheva
As Large Language Models become more proficient, their misuse in coordinated disinformation campaigns is a growing concern. This study explores the capability of ChatGPT with GPT-3…
MP Twitter Engagement and Abuse Post-first COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: White Paper
Tracie Farrell, Mehmet Bakir, Kalina Bontcheva
The UK has had a volatile political environment for some years now, with Brexit and leadership crises marking the past five years. With this work, we wanted to understand more abou…
Online Abuse toward Candidates during the UK General Election 2019: Working Paper
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E Bakir, Ian Roberts +2
The 2019 UK general election took place against a background of rising online hostility levels toward politicians and concerns about its impact on democracy. We collected 4.2 milli…
Race and Religion in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians: Working Paper
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Mark A. Greenwood +2
Against a backdrop of tensions related to EU membership, we find levels of online abuse toward UK MPs reach a new high. Race and religion have become pressing topics globally, and…
Online Abuse of UK MPs from 2015 to 2019: Working Paper
Mark A. Greenwood, Mehmet E. Bakir, Genevieve Gorrell +3
We extend previous work about general election-related abuse of UK MPs with two new time periods, one in late 2018 and the other in early 2019, allowing previous observations to be…
Local Media and Geo-situated Responses to Brexit: A Quantitative Analysis of Twitter, News and Survey Data
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Luke Temple +5
Societal debates and political outcomes are subject to news and social media influences, which are in turn subject to commercial and other forces. Local press are in decline, creat…