4 papers
Visual Matters: Connecting Aesthetic Appeal and Production Quality of Photos, Infographics and Data Visualizations to Credibility of Social Media Posts
Salman Khawar, Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng +2
The rapid proliferation of visual content raises fundamental questions about how different visual formats and features shape perceived credibility. Drawing on processing fluency th…
From Verification to Amplification: Auditing Reverse Image Search as Algorithmic Gatekeeping in Visual Misinformation Fact-checking
Cong Lin, Yifei Chen, Jiangyue Chen +3
As visual misinformation becomes increasingly prevalent, platform algorithms act as intermediaries that curate information for users' verification practices. Yet, it remains unclea…
Large Language Model-Informed Feature Discovery Improves Prediction and Interpretation of Credibility Perceptions of Visual Content
Yilang Peng, Sijia Qian, Yingdan Lu +1
In today's visually dominated social media landscape, predicting the perceived credibility of visual content and understanding what drives human judgment are crucial for countering…
Crafting Synthetic Realities: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images
Qiyao Peng, Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng +3
Advances in generative models have created Artificial Intelligence-Generated Images (AIGIs) nearly indistinguishable from real photographs. Leveraging a large corpus of 30,824 AIGI…