3 papers
cs.CL2025
Do small language models generate realistic variable-quality fake news headlines?
Austin McCutcheon, Chris Brogly
Small language models (SLMs) have the capability for text generation and may potentially be used to generate falsified texts online. This study evaluates 14 SLMs (1.7B-14B paramete…
cs.CL2025
Binary classification for perceived quality of headlines and links on worldwide news websites, 2018-2024
Austin McCutcheon, Thiago E. A. de Oliveira, Aleksandr Zheleznov +1
The proliferation of online news enables potential widespread publication of perceived low-quality news headlines/links. As a result, we investigated whether it was possible to aut…
cs.SI2024
Interrupted time series analysis of clickbait on worldwide news websites, 2016-2023
Austin McCutcheon, Chris Brogly
Clickbait is deceptive text that can manipulate web browsing, creating an information gap between a link and target page that literally baits a user into clicking. Clickbait detect…