The paper "Industrialized Deception: The Collateral Effects of LLM-Generated Misinformation on Digital Ecosystems" updates the 2024 survey on generative AI and misinformation, shifting from a literature review to practical countermeasures. It documents changes in the threat landscape, noting that Large Language Models and multimodal systems have improved AI-generated content, thereby worsening information quality. The authors introduce JudgeGPT, a platform for assessing human perception of AI-generated news, and RogueGPT, a controlled stimulus generation engine, forming an experimental pipeline to study detection and mitigation strategies, including LLM-based detection and inoculation approaches.
arXiv:2608.21389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI enables customized misinformation at scale, yet defenses remain largely reactive. We present empirical findings from a human-subject st...
arXiv:2609.20838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we examine how modern LLMs generate and detect fake news under controlled settings across four manipulation scenarios. These are open-en...
arXiv:2501. 14728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models have achieved significant success, their misuse for generating deceptive content raises growing concerns about online information security.
arXiv:2606. 09700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered content moderation systems have become a critical defense against harmful online content.
The paper investigates whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can generate and detect realistic multimodal fake news on social media. Using a multi‑agent framework—comprising a story agent, an image agent, and a critic agent—the authors produced over 9,000 paired multimodal news posts across science, health, and entertainment domains. They benchmarked 16 open‑ and closed‑source MLLMs for automated detection and found that most models fall far short of human accuracy, especially in identifying image authenticity, highlighting the need for stronger defenses against social media fake news.
arXiv:2609.36850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative content is increasingly entering the production and dissemination of news, transforming fake news from manually fabricated or simply manipul...
arXiv:2606. 03348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent generative models can now produce visual artifacts with realistic embedded text and layouts, creating a new misinformation threat: synthetic credibility.
The paper investigates how different multimodal design choices affect the performance of misinformation detection systems. Using over 3,375 experiments across three benchmark datasets and various pre‑trained vision and language models, the authors systematically compare design options and conduct robustness analyses. The study offers practical guidance on which choices improve detection, when they may fail silently, and which pipeline components most influence model behavior, addressing four key research questions.
The article reports on a survey of 21 experts—including AI researchers, policymakers, and disinformation specialists—about the risks posed by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to information integrity. It finds that while deepfake videos are immediately shocking, large‑scale text generation threatens to create systemic epistemic fragmentation and synthetic consensus, especially in politics. Experts express doubt about current detection tools and instead advocate for provenance standards and regulatory frameworks, emphasizing the need for reproducible research methods and standardized benchmarks to effectively counter synthetic media.
The article surveys fake review detection research, focusing on how pre‑trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) influence both the generation of deceptive reviews and their detection. It reviews 211 studies from 2018 to early 2026, categorizing methods by evidence source—such as review text, sentiment, rating behavior, temporal metadata, user‑product graphs, multimodal content, external knowledge, and LLM‑generated signals—and by fusion level. The survey traces the evolution from traditional machine learning to PLM‑based and LLM‑based approaches, evaluates performance on Amazon, Yelp, and OpSpam benchmarks, and highlights open challenges including adversarial generation, cross‑domain transfer, uncertainty‑aware fusion, robustness to missing sources, interpretability, and trustworthy evaluation of AI‑generated deceptive content.
arXiv:2606. 04199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing use of large language models has raised concerns about the spread of AI-generated fake news, particularly under varying prompting strategies.
arXiv:2606. 03066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of generative AI has made multimodal fake news increasingly realistic and pervasive, posing severe threats to public trust and social stability.