Lying Blindly: Bypassing ChatGPT's Safeguards to Generate Hard-to-Detect Disinformation Claims
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2024

As Large Language Models become more proficient, their misuse in coordinated disinformation campaigns is a growing concern. This study explores the capability of ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 to generate short-form disinformation claims about the war in Ukraine, both in general and on a specific event, which is beyond the GPT-3.5 knowledge cutoff. Unlike prior work, we do not provide the model with human-written disinformation narratives by including them in the prompt. Thus the generated short claims ar