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FakeSpotter: A content and strategy agnostic Viral Misinformation Detection Tool
Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani
Misinformation detection tools often rely on binary true and false classifications or models trained on historical examples, limiting their usefulness when novel misleading narrati…
Beyond AI-Generated Labels: Watermarking, Co-Creation, and Conflation of AI-Generation with Disinformation
Federico Germani, Giovanni Spitale
Watermarking is often presented as a straightforward solution for distinguishing AI-generated from human-generated content, enabling platforms and regulators to trace synthetic con…
Complacent, Not Sycophantic: Reframing Large Language Models and Designing AI Literacy for Complacent Machines
Federico Germani, Giovanni Spitale
Large language models are often described as sycophantic, in the sense that they appear to flatter users or mirror their beliefs. We argue that this label is conceptually misleadin…
The Making of Digital Ghosts: Designing Ethical AI Afterlives
Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani
Advances in artificial intelligence now make it possible to simulate the dead through chatbots, voice clones, and video avatars trained on a person's digital traces. These "digital…
Source framing triggers systematic evaluation bias in Large Language Models
Federico Germani, Giovanni Spitale
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used not only to generate text but also to evaluate it, raising urgent questions about whether their judgments are consistent, unbiase…
Emotional Manipulation Through Prompt Engineering Amplifies Disinformation Generation in AI Large Language Models
Rasita Vinay, Giovanni Spitale, Nikola Biller-Andorno +1
This study investigates the generation of synthetic disinformation by OpenAI's Large Language Models (LLMs) through prompt engineering and explores their responsiveness to emotiona…
AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans
Giovanni Spitale, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Federico Germani
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is happening during an infodemic, which has been having dramatic effects on global health.…