ChatGPT as a commenter to the news: can LLMs generate human-like opinions?

Autor: Tseng, Rayden, Verberne, Suzan, van der Putten, Peter
Rok vydání: 2023
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47896-3_12
Popis: ChatGPT, GPT-3.5, and other large language models (LLMs) have drawn significant attention since their release, and the abilities of these models have been investigated for a wide variety of tasks. In this research we investigate to what extent GPT-3.5 can generate human-like comments on Dutch news articles. We define human likeness as `not distinguishable from human comments', approximated by the difficulty of automatic classification between human and GPT comments. We analyze human likeness across multiple prompting techniques. In particular, we utilize zero-shot, few-shot and context prompts, for two generated personas. We found that our fine-tuned BERT models can easily distinguish human-written comments from GPT-3.5 generated comments, with none of the used prompting methods performing noticeably better. We further analyzed that human comments consistently showed higher lexical diversity than GPT-generated comments. This indicates that although generative LLMs can generate fluent text, their capability to create human-like opinionated comments is still limited.
Comment: Published as Tseng, R., Verberne, S., van der Putten, P. (2023). ChatGPT as a Commenter to the News: Can LLMs Generate Human-Like Opinions?. In: Ceolin, D., Caselli, T., Tulin, M. (eds) Disinformation in Open Online Media. MISDOOM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14397. Springer, Cham
Databáze: arXiv