Abstract
The advanced text generation methods have witnessed great success in text summarization, language translation, and synthetic news generation. However, these techniques can be abused to generate disinformation and fake news. To better understand the potential threats of synthetic news, we develop a novel generation method FACTGEN to generate high-quality news content. The majority of existing text generation methods either afford limited supplementary information or lose consistency between the input and output which makes the synthetic news less trustworthy. To address these issues, FACTGEN retrieves external facts to enrich the output and reconstructs the input claim from the generated content to improve the consistency among the input and the output. Experiment results on real-world datasets demonstrate that the generated news contents of FACTGEN are consistent and contain rich facts. We also discuss an effective defending technique to identify these synthetic news pieces if FACTGEN was used to generate fake news.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021 |
| Publisher | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
| Pages | 13825-13833 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781713835974 |
| State | Published - 2021 |
| Event | 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Feb 2 2021 → Feb 9 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021 |
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| Volume | 15 |
Conference
| Conference | 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 2/2/21 → 2/9/21 |
Funding
This work is, in part, supported with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR001120C0123, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at The GeorgeWashington University. The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. This work is, in part, supported with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR001120C0123, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at The George Washington University. The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence