TweepFake: about Detecting Deepfake Tweets

Understand

The recent advances in language modeling significantly improved the generative capabilities of deep neural models: in 2019 OpenAI released GPT-2, a pre-trained language model that can autonomously generate coherent, non-trivial and human-like text samples.

• Since then, ever more powerful text generative models have been developed.
• Adversaries can exploit these tremendous generative capabilities to enhance social bots that will have the ability to write plausible deepfake messages, hoping to contaminate public debate.
• To prevent this, it is crucial to develop deepfake social media messages detection systems.