From Generation to Detection: Exploration of Discourse Driven Scenario based LLM Generated Fake News
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Title:From Generation to Detection: Exploration of Discourse Driven Scenario based LLM Generated Fake News
Abstract:In this study, we examine how modern LLMs generate and detect fake news under controlled settings across four manipulation scenarios. These are open-ended generation, rewriting, manipulation prompts and attribute based prompts grounded in the journalistic discourse framework. Firstly, using seven widely adapted models, we created a synthetic fake news corpus with 14000 generated articles across these four scenarios. Then we analyzed its linguistic properties to assess how closely model-generated news resembles real news structurally and semantically. Finally, to evaluate detection performance, we conducted experiments where each model judges generated fake news, starting with a basic detection prompt and improved prompts developed through an iterative refinement process that extracts misleading patterns from real-fake pairs. Our results revealed substantial variation across models in both generating and detecting misinformation, demonstrated that the generation strategy strongly influences detectability, and show that the refined prompt does not improve and often harms detection performance. Therefore, the study provides a systematic assessment of LLMs detection capability of LLMs generated fake news across typical generation scenarios.
| Comments: | 35 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.20838 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2609.20838v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.20838
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