Chiara Alzetta

AI ‘News’ Content Farms Are Easy to Make and Hard to Detect: A Case Study in Italian

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as ‘content farm’ models (CFMs), to generate synthetic text that could pass for real news articles. This is already happening even for languages that do not have high-quality monolingual LLMs. We show that fine-tuning Llama (v1), mostly trained on E…