Detection of Human and Machine-Authored Fake News in Urdu

Understand

The rise of social media has amplified the spread of fake news, now further complicated by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which ease the generation of highly convincing, error-free misinformation, making it increasingly challenging for the public to discern truth from falsehood.

• Traditional fake news detection methods relying on linguistic cues also becomes less effective.
• Moreover, current detectors primarily focus on binary classification and English texts, often overlooking the distinction between machine-generated true vs.
• fake news and the detection in low-resource languages.