In this reading group meeting, Rupak Kumar Das presents an interesting paper on applying LLMs to fake news detection. The paper is called Bad actor, good advisor: exploring the role of large language models in fake news detection by Hu et al. Their main key finding is embedded right in the title: LLMs are not good at detecting fake news, but can provide additional advice that offers context that improves a different classification methodology.
Presentation Link: https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Group+Meeting/1_mc8n2kk6